First, the calamity We’re on a very bad path in the US at the moment. Many of you live in the US, as I do, although many of you don’t. However, as they say, “If America sneezes the rest of the world catches cold.” What happens here affects the entire world. Many people outside the...| Wildmind
Because of the alarming political situation in the US, which has parallels with events in other countries, I’ve been writing about how we, as spiritual practitioners, might skillfully face the troubling emotions politics can give rise to. The two emotions that stand out for me are fear (where is this all going? how bad will...| Wildmind
One of my more popular guided meditations on the Insight Timer app is meant to help people get to sleep. It’s been listened to 900,000 times across the two versions that I have available, suggesting that a lot of people have trouble switching their minds off at night and find that meditation helps. Unfortunately, a lot...| Wildmind
As human beings, we are psychologically porous. We’re open to influences from outside ourselves, including others’ words and actions. That’s largely a good thing, because it means we can learn from other human beings. But it also means that what’s going on around us can affect, in not-so-good ways, our sense of what’s normal and...| Wildmind
This is one of a series of articles where I’ve been mythbusting things people “know” about the Buddha. These myths include the supposed facts that he was a prince, that he was born a Hindu, and that he left home after seeing “four sights.” Such factoids are present in almost every book book about the...| Wildmind
Someone wrote to me recently and asked two questions, which boiled down to: Did the Buddha teach self-love? Is loving yourself contrary to seeing through the illusion of self? There was a third question, but it was a little quirky, and so I’ll deal with it at the end. First, I explained that these days...| Wildmind
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