The Buddha described equanimity as an unshakable steadiness of mind and heart that meets life’s inevitable changes without being swept away. When we are equanimous, we are not ruffled by the eight worldly winds: gain and loss, praise and blame, success and failure,...

“To live without arriving is to learn how to stay.” ~attributed to the Buddha For most of my life, I assumed that arriving was the point. Like many people, I believed adulthood would eventually deliver a clear role, a measure of security, and a sense of belonging I...

‘You can start meditating right now.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘You can start meditating right now.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘The path does not end with the realisation of emptiness, not-self. It continues as a journey of awakening in the present, in every breath.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘Learned Audience, the Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realise it ourselves.’ Hui Neng

“Sometimes the person you love the most is the one who teaches you the hardest lesson about yourself.” ~Unknown I once thought that being in a relationship meant sacrificing parts of myself for the sake of “love.” I stayed when I should have left. I forgave when I...

‘Sometimes anger may give some kind of immediate support, some kind of strength and power, but in the long run it doesn’t. There’s always some fear behind it.’ Geshe Tashi Tsering

When my Tibetan grandmother died on a winter night in Darjeeling, India, the lamas came to the house and began reading aloud from The Tibetan Book of the Deadto guide her through the bardo, the liminal state between her death and her rebirth. Seated in the altar room...