‘If a major fear or worry arises, tell it you’ll give it attention later. Remarkably, this works. The mind, like a restless child, often settles once it knows it will be heard.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘To experience the Buddha directly is to be fully present with what is, without clinging or resistance. It is to engage with the moment, each thought, each feeling, as an expression of the Dharma.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘Please consider this: right now, you have a body, a voice and a mind, don’t you? Of these, mind is the most important.’ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

‘The easiest and most harmful place for practitioners to find themselves in is the discursive mind — discrimination, analysing, categorising this and that, good and bad, here and now.’ Jisu Sunim

I felt conflicted because there was a gulf between what I thought I should feel and what I was actually feeling. I should be grateful, I told myself, that I was a perfect match. It would significantly increase the chances that my brother’s body would not reject my...

When my niece’s invitation to her eighth birthday party said 1 p.m. at Skateland, I knew what that meant: Vietnamese Standard Time. Sure enough, my family strolled in late. Fifteen minutes late, to be exact. But that’s okay; by then, I’d already laced up my own...