Mindfulness for 30min within the isolation of a meditation session is like taking a pill in the morning to deal with stress. It’s more than that …… it’s delusional! Harsh? Yes, but a truism unless you tackle the underlying cause… Read More ›
Dhammapada
Buddha’s Words: #10 Instant Karma
Today’s post sheds a little light on Buddha’s words from The Dhammapada chapter 10 which is all about negative and instant Karma. Popular definitions and beliefs in Karma include expressions such as “what goes round comes round” or ” it… Read More ›
Buddha’s words; Chapter 7 The Enlightened
The Dhammapada, chapter 7, recreates Buddha’s words telling us how to recognise an enlightened person and describes a number of features of enlightenment generally. This is important because it sets the goal, lays down the template and shows us what… Read More ›
Buddha’s Words; Chapter 6 The Wise
We live in a materialistic world, self obsessed, constantly craving more, often “living” inside a fake reality of social media, computer games, television. Chapter 5 of the Dhammapada describes a wise person as someone who rejects all this having recognised… Read More ›
Buddha’s Words; Ch.1-5, All in the Mind?
There is no Buddhist bible. The closest written work is The Dhammapada, a collection of sayings and teachings from Buddha passed on in the oral tradition of the time and then subsequently written down. I recently began to read the… Read More ›
Significant Quotations: #1 All states of being are determined by mind.
This is my favourite of all quotations and has been a “guiding light” to me for the past 22 years. It is a saying of Buddha and an interpretation from the first verse of the Dhammapada, a collection of sayings… Read More ›
The Two Doctors 
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