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Karma in Buddhism

This week I was participating in a discussion where someone brought up a situation where people used the concept of karma as a way to justify not helping people.
This got me thinking about how this is an example in which someone has heard of a concept and then ran with it, without actually taking the… »

A month in the Center

I just spent the last month housesitting the Nyingma Center building.
I must say that I found it a good experience, although it was harder than I anticipated.
I think that almost none of the things I planned or anticipated went as I had thought, and that can be hard. Still, on the other hand, it was… »

The Importance of Practice

One of the reasons I’ve not been posting much is because I felt I couldn’t really write with any amount of credibility about the subjects I wanted to write about.
I could have written about my Skillful Means studies, or about my work in the center, but I felt, and mostly still feel that it would… »

A bit gloomy, but a happy end

One of the things I get increasingly irritated and worried about is the mounting tension between people who are religious and people who style themselves atheist, particularly “atheists” who style themselves as proponents of enlightened culture and science.
I am stressing here that it is a tension between people and their identities because, as far as… »

Back after a long hiatus.

Well, it’s certainly been a very long time since I’ve posted anything on here.
More about the why of that later; such a lot of things have happened in the last few months, I feel quite overwhelmed by them.
First of all, jobwise. From starting last year at Lotus Design as a cushion filler, I am now… »

Patterns

I’ve made an interesting discovery this week. One that has enabled me to deal with something I’ve been pondering for one and a half year.
This all (of course) started during my stay in the clinic. I was working on emotions and learned that a lot of emotions can be dealt with by analysing them and… »

Spring is in the Air

That’s great to start with!
I’m so happy we are having a few good sunny days. I really am influenced quite badly by dark gloomy weather, but the last few days cheered me up immensely.
On an even happier note, for the last few weeks I’ve noticed a change in me that I am very happy with:… »

Positive Thoughts

This week we have been working with positive daily mottos at work.
The idea is that apart from the other practices we do during work you formulate a positive motto to work with during a particular day.
I must say that I liked working with them.
The first two days were hard, because I started making the motto… »

Last month in pictures

It’s shameful, I know, I haven’t posted in yonks!
I’m just too busy at work. All’s going well and I’m enjoying myself.
I thought I’d just give you a guided tour in pictures of what I’ve been up to the last weeks. Here goes! Just use the arrows below the picture to browse through them.

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Profound

Reading back over my posts over the year, I am reminded that most of the insights I’ve posted about don’t seem that profound when they are written down.
And to be honest, they probably aren’t.
Be kind to people, be aware of what is happening, don’t let emotions cloud your judgement, they are all pretty much things… »