Every being has the potential for perfection, just as every sesame seed is permeated with oil. Ignorance, in this context, means being unaware of that potential, like the beggar who is unaware of the treasure buried beneath his shack.
Actualizing
True novelty
If you’re always looking for novelty, you’re often depriving yourself of the most essential truths. The antidote to suffering and to the belief in a self consists of going to the very source of your thoughts and recognizing the ultimate
Magic moments
For the last ten years, I have been fortunate to spend a few months a year in a small hermitage in the Himalayas, in Nepal where I live.
In the summer, during the rainy season, as well as during the
Mid-term help for Yushu earthquake victims
During the recent earthquake which affected the city of Yushu (Kyerku in Tibetan) and the surrounding areas, the monks from our Shechen monastery, located under 150 km away, were among the first of many groups of Buddhist monks who joined
The pseudo-debate on global warming
A well researched Greenpeace* investigation reveals that the group made up of the two Koch brothers, who together are worth 30 billion dollars, has spent 44 million dollars to finance disinformation campaigns on global warming and its causes.
The American
A Science of Awakening
How should I lead my life? How should I live in society? What is knowable? These three questions have been puzzled over through the ages. Ideally, our lives should lead us to a feeling of plenitude, so that we have
The fear of change
We are like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to ?y away.
We have grown so accustomed to our mental habits that we can barely imagine what
A few words from the French Philosopher Alexandre Jollien, during our recent dialogue in Lausanne
‟Between the ages of 3 and 17, I lived in an institution for handicapped people and I came to understand the meaning of life, that it was joy […]. Its source was in the meeting of another.”
‟I have a
Outer and inner conditions
When we are thrown into confusion by inner troubles, we have no idea how to soothe them and instinctively turn outward. We try cobbling together makeshift solutions and looking for outer conditions that are supposed to make us happy. By
Flying over the Irrawaddy Delta
Late afternoon, flying over the Irrawaddy River Delta (Burma), on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Kathmandu.
To compensate for the atmospheric veil created by the altitude, I increased a bit the contrast and saturation.
Canon Mark 3 Ds,