An Excerpt From:
Loving-Kindness is the Best Medicine
by Tulku Thondop Rinpoche
The essence of loving-kindness is wishing joy for others.
Like a loving mother for her child,
Serve others by offering all—your body, wealth, and merits
And bear all the hurts caused by them. —Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa
The Buddha said, “Mind is the main thing and it is the leader.” The [...]
Growing up in the fifties, for a while I believed that what I saw on television sitcoms was the typical family. They all got along. Nobody got drunk or flew into a rage. There was never any real ugliness. Many of us watching thought, of course, that only our family was the exception to the [...]
“The true task of spiritual life
is not found in faraway places
or unusual states of consciousness.
It is here in the present.
It asks of us a welcoming spirit
to greet all that life presents to us
with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart.
We can bow to both beauty and suffering,
to our entanglements and confusion,
to our fears and to the [...]
