How do you generally see life? The Buddhist view is that life is inherently filled with suffering. This might sound bleak, but it doesn’t have to be. When coupled with acceptance, we can understand this as an inevitable part of the human experience. We will encounter challenges, experience loss, and …
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I’ve recently decided sugar is the enemy. Hardly an earth-shattering statement, that. Too much sugar is obviously not good and I’ve always known this but I’ve always had a sweet tooth. I love cake, sweets, biscuits, chocolate… you name it. This is actually a really tricky one for me – …
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Mindfulness should be easy, but it isn’t. The concept is easy, the practice isn’t. It sounds simple enough, right? Be present, focus on the now. But anyone who’s tried it knows the practice is far trickier than the concept. Our minds are naturally wired to flit between past regrets and …
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Love is as essential as it is nourishing. We share it freely with friends and people we care about, and in intimate relationships, it deepens with trust and understanding. But love is a double-edged sword. When trust breaks, love’s warmth can turn to the sting of betrayal. This is especially …
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Maybe we are at our best when we know where we are going, what we are doing and what we are about. It’s a popular idea that we need to have a purpose, to know or find our (life) purpose. I’ve never thought a ‘life purpose’ is absolutely necessary personally …
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The ego doesn’t like to stay here in the present. It needs constant reference to past and future to strengthen its hold on our lives. So we often find ourselves lost in thought of some other time or place. But we can learn to deny this wandering egoic mind and …
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