Month: August 2021

At home, we have a shrine room where Molly and I pray each day as well as the place to sit for a period of meditation. On the mantel above the fireplace are a number of Buddha statues together with prayer wheels and on the walls are tankas and embroidered Buddhist items sourced from a dozen countries where the Buddha has left his footsteps…

The Buddha pointed out that there are three paths of Pride which are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am less than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others. Each of these leads to more suffering for myself and others. What then can we do? Where does this leave us? This is yet another example of the wonderful way in which the Buddha challenges us to “step outside the square” so to speak and find a new way of being and a new fruitful way of doing.