Reaping What You Sow

It’s been hard to keep up with my RSS reader over the Christmas break, we spent much of it away from computers and while I had my little fix of Facebook for mobile and caught up on a couple of my favourite blogs via the web browser on my blackberry, the service where I was [...]

I just love this…

From A Buddhist Perspective: Birth – Death The end, separation, loss, sadness, regret. Death – Birth A new beginning, continuation, possibility, another chance. It’s all in how we choose to look at phenomenon. From habit or with wisdom.

Wishlist for Christmas

My wishlist for this Christmas is pretty simple.  Being Buddhist, I feel weird even having a Christmas wishlist, but because it’s such a broadly celebrated commercial holiday in Australia, I find it hard to avoid.  So my wishlist is a little different, but in keeping with my beliefs. I’d like anyone intending to buy me [...]

G is for Gratitude

The next installment in the Dictionary of Me is based on the Buddhist principles of Gratitude. There is a lovely little blog I read called A Buddhist Perspective and it succinctly describes what I refer to: The practice of gratitude is very important in Buddhism. But so often, we forget about feeling grateful. When things [...]

Buddhist Inspiration

Several years ago I was given a book that introduced me to many of the teachings of the Buddha – prior to this I had always remained relatively disinterested in all types of ‘organised religion’ or faith. I think the main reason for this was the alarming degree of contradiction that I have found, not [...]