Reasonable attachments?
Are there such thing as reasonable attachments? In the training community I lived in, one of the old rules was that people should not be attached to their rooms...
Category: Buddhism
Absolute Love —Total Freedom
I became a Pureland Buddhist in 2006. I didn’t know anything about Pureland Buddhism at the time. I had been practicing Buddhism for a few years, and then I met...
Learning to stay sane around people
After a very peopled few days it is quiet in the temple today. It is lunchtime, and the only other person I have seen waved at me from a top floor window, whils...
Foolish Beings in a Beautiful Land
There is a thin pink streak of light in the eastern sky. The sun is well over the horizon and that last thread of colour tells me what a glorious sunrise I woul...
The Power of Non-Rejection or Coming to Wholeness
“If I don’t like it, it doesn’t exist.” One of the most common ways of dealing with anything challenging is to pretend that it doesn’t exist. You come home huff...