For over thirty years I worked as a doctor in the field of child abuse—examining and/or interviewing children who’d been raped, burned, beaten, and killed, most often by their caretakers. Every time I thought I’d seen the worst cruelty adults could perpetrate on a...

‘For us, to be alive is to practise. The question is our very life. If we hold it continuously, this is proof that we are alive.’ Haechun Sunim

Have you ever read about the "elder daughter syndrome"? A brief explanation of it is that as the oldest daughter in a family experiences immense responsibility and expectations from a very young age, it makes her have tendencies to be overachieving, people-pleasing,...

‘The enlightenment in which you see your true mind and realise your true nature is transmitted outside of the scriptures; it is not based on names and words.’ Bassui Tokushō

Brahmaviharas (The Four Immeasurables): Equanimity, Loving Kindness, Compassion, and Sympathetic Joy.

When I took my first steps down the Buddhist path I learned several uncomfortable truths about myself. For example, I learned that much of my suffering was self-created. Sometimes, my mind was clouded by feelings of greed, anger, and ignorance, which caused me to make...