Imagine a difficult situation that many of us experience: an aging parent is beginning to forget things, to have difficulty speaking, to struggle physically, and
From the top of a mountain we can see far and wide. We can see the land and the sky. Standing at the meeting point
The History Boys (2006), a masterful film adaptation of playwright Alan Bennett’s drama of the same name, has a thoughtful and melancholy ending. The film deploys
My first meditation retreat was in 2004, in Ladakh, northern India, at the far western end of the Himalayas. Our meditation hall was an army
Imagine you could give your child the kind of wise spiritual instruction provided to a young Tibetan lama. The kind of instruction that nurtures a
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)* is a serious neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive weakness and a huge psychological impact on both patients and their carers.
I’ve known people who go to a single meditation retreat and when they return home they start sitting an hour in the morning and an
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a revered Karma Kagyu and Nyingma master. Born in 1975, the son of renowned meditation master Tulku Uryen Rinpoche, he received
Sacca, or truthfulness, is the seventh of the ten paramis, or perfections. We usually think of truthfulness in relation to speech, and this is the basis for
During a Hakomi* session some years ago, my lama Yeshe Wangmo asked me, “What would be a nourishing statement for you?” In this therapeutic context, dialogue
“Getting ahead,” “racing to the front,” or “rising to the top.” The very language of success in our industrialized societies implies normative values of competition
Water falling, drop by drop, will fill even a large pot.Likewise, the wise (one), accumulating good, little by littleBecomes goodness itself. The Dhammapada (Maitreya 1995, 34)
