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"Keep in mind the many beings who are suffering in the same way as you are, and pray that your suffering may absorb theirs and that they may be liberated from all suffering. In this way, illness can teach us compassion." Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche…

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How multitasking leads to ignorance

By Andrew Olendzki



© Mark Harwood



When the Buddha says, “I know of no single thing more conducive to great harm than an unrestrained mind,” I think he is referring, in part, to the current penchant for multitasking. When the mind tries to do several things at once, it does not do any of them very well. This is an empirical fact proven by numerous experiments, and it is easy to test out for yourself: try texting a message while… Continue

AS YOU KNOW BY MY MANY BLOGS, I TYPICALLY WRITE ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISSUES AND ART. I AM NOW CO-AUTHORING A BOOK WITH A DEAR AND LONG TERM FRIEND OF MINE WHO HAS HAD SEVERE ISSUES WITH POST-HYSTERECTOMY PROBLEMS. SHE HAS SEEN MANY PSYCHIATRISTS, TAKEN MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PRESCRIBED MEDICINES, IMPLANTED OVERDOSES OF ESTROGEN PELLETS AND ALMOST LOST HER ENTIRE FAMILY, LIFE, HER CAREER, WHICH WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL, AND HAS HAD MANY YEARS OF WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED. SHE MET A DOCTOR THROUGH A FRIEND AFTER… Continue

Coming Home

Home is the realization that we are not separate from anything, there is only "this", our natural condition. Our idea that there is a separate sense of self, separate from all of "this" is what keeps us from this

realization. No object, or being exist independent of itself; How can

it? When there is a sense of a separate self there is something…

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"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched,

you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have… Continue