Author
Karma Yeshe Rabgye is a Buddhist monk who teaches Buddhist philosophy, meditation and mindfulness all over the world. He is the author of four books on Buddhism and is the co-founder of the Sangye-Menla Trust, which is a charitable trust set up to help sick people from the remote areas of the Indian Himalayas.
When we do our meditation, mindfulness or a reflection practice, it will not always be plain sailing. There are five things that Gautama Buddha taught that will interfere with, obstruct and impede our progress. These are called the five hindrances and they are five negative mental states.
Read More
When we meditate, or practice mindfulness, or undertake a reflection practice, it will not always be plain sailing. There are five things that Gautama Buddha taught that will interfere with, obstruct and impede our progress. These are called the five hindrances and they are five negative mental states
Read More
The mind lurches from one thing to another at rapid speed, and then we wonder why our mind is not at peace. How can it be? It is exhausted!
Read More
But remember, just because something seemed to work in the past, doesn’t mean it is going to work in the present moment. Everything from your past does not belong to your present.
Read More
Searching for happiness seems to be one of the most important things in people’s lives today. Here in India, we’ve got the ‘Art of Happiness’ program, in Bhutan they’ve got their gross national happiness, and if you look online there’s websites called Berkeley’s Happiness Program or Regaining your happiness in seven weeks – that seems a long time to achieve a little bit of happiness – and there’s the Way to Happiness Foundation, which has 21 precepts which can lead you to happiness. There are also apps that help boost your happiness, such as Happy Now, Happy Habits and Happify. All these things are telling us that we have to be happy. But they’re also trying to say to you that happiness is a destination and it isn’t.
Read More
Now, I am not one of those people who think things were better in the past. Of course, some things were and other things weren’t. However, where social media is concerned, I feel troubled about the way it is making us communicate these days.
Read More
When you have lost a loved one through a terrorist act, a drunken driver or an act of violence, how do you forgive the unforgivable? Does forgiveness mean we just accept what has happened and we surrender to defeat? No, forgiveness is not about helplessly accepting, giving up, being weak or avoiding justice. It is about how you respond to the terrible wrong and how you can let go of the past and move forward with your life.
Read More
Workdays can be stressful. We do not have a choice when it comes to colleagues that we will work with or any control over how people will behave. We do have control over ourselves though. SImple practices included in ones daily repertoire can be a game changer.
Read More
