What is it to renounce? And why is it so important – what is the place of renunciation among the qualities to be developed in someone…
Not to do any evil, to cultivate good, to purify one’s mind: This is the teaching of the Buddha. It sounds so simple: not to…
The practice of the Buddhist philosophy is based first and foremost on self-improvement: without an effort to improve ourselves, there is no meaning in meditation,…
Honesty is one of the most basic and essential qualities that we look for in others. A liar and hypocrite is someone we can never…
The god that I was brought up with demands blind faith. According to this god, or at least the people who preach his word, trust…
Today happened this. We were lifting a big beam into the ceiling with the whole team. They are so heavy that seven people need to…
Proper self love, or self-care, is not about treating yourself to a massage, or your daily fancy coffee.
There is a story about a man who has a wife, whom he dearly loves, and yet every time he sees a beautiful woman, he…
One cold day in December many years ago, Eric, who at that time was a young man feeling old and world-weary (in the way that…
Most apologies mean very little. Much of the time, even when they come as a response to genuine wrongdoing, you can see this; that most…