by Cathy Evans | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog
If we genuinely wish to achieve enlightenment to free ourselves and others from suffering, we need to give some serious attention to developing calm abiding. Shantideva said: All the recitations and austerities, even though performed for a long time, are quite useless...
by Martin Horan | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog
The five forces are five simple methods for bringing Dharma practice into every aspect of our daily life. They can also be adapted to help us prepare for the end of our life. In short, the five forces are: 1) the force of beneficial intention 2) the force of...
by Martin Horan | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog
The five forces are five simple practices that we can use to bring Dharma into our daily life. If we use them as a focus for our practice day by day, we can also adapt them at the end of our life (see Part two). They are also sometimes known as the five powers. ...
by Anna Goldstein | Apr 19, 2024 | Blog
“Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind.” – His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet. For many people anger or any of its siblings – frustration, impatience, annoyance and irritation, exasperation or touchiness – represent giant...
by Tim McKibben | Apr 19, 2024 | Blog
Love is such an evocative word. Throughout the ages countless poems and songs have been written about it. In many cultures, it’s seen as essential for spiritual growth, and deep down most of us want to know love. However, often the ‘love’ referred to in literature...
by Tim McKibben | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog
When asked to write this, I pondered: what value are words about compassion? Especially as everywhere you look in life, actual kindness shows its wonderful face. Like the sun breaking through a cloudy sky, its presence is pervasive and irrepressible. You see it in a...
