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Dealing with our demons
Of the three steps to overcoming our delusions taught in the mind-training teachings of Buddhism, the first is recognizing or identifying them. And that means not just intellectually but in our own...
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I choose everything
I’m on a roll with this monsters in the basement theme, so bear with me for one more article. Our delusions project problems “out there”, in all the directions they face. Work problems, relationship...
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Ever had self-loathing?
Delusions are inner diseases. When our mind is uncomfortable or ill at ease, we can accept that we are experiencing mental dis-ease, some level of uneasiness, without thinking, “I am a disease.” (By...
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Tired, yet, of living a cliché?
On the last day of the recent Kadampa Summer Festival, the life story of Buddha Shakyamuni was shown, as it always is, and well received. Buddha’s story is a great story, and ours can be a great story...
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A way out of this fine mess …
I have been at the Fall Festival in Toronto this week, which has been an incredible pleasure, one that could only have been improved upon if you had all been here as well. During one lunch with my old...
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Hey, what’s going on?!
A friend just told me that the Republicans are winning by 36,000 votes in this great state of Colorado. It gave me pause, again!, as so many times I have been wondering of late, hey, what’s going on?!...
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Think globally, act locally
We cannot change everyone. We cannot get everyone to behave. You may have noticed this. So being the change we want to see in the world — as Mahatma Gandhi put it in equally trying times — really needs...
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Time to rebel!
There seems to be a fair bit of hubris around lately, like it’s catching or something, and some of it is quite dangerous. Deluded pride is more about bending the world to our own will, thinking we are...
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Breaking free
As a further incentive to ditch the attachment and grow the love, as described in this article, I find the following analogy very helpful. Buddha likened samsara to a prison. Imagine you’ve been in a...
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How to overcome anxiety
Sometimes dubbed “the age of anxiety”, people are reportedly experiencing a lot of (di)stress in this modern age. Up to a third of the UK population, for example, will suffer from anxiety disorder or...
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