Wisdom through Mindfulness

Last week I went to a shopping mall and found that it was packed with people who were rushing to buy things as if they have never shopped be...

The benefits of meditation have been discussed in previous posts (see below). In this post I have attached two articles that may interest yo...

Today was the first snow fall in Toronto. It was really bad weather out there with snow and freezing rain. I had to get my new pair of boot...

Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in forest. -Dhammapa...

"How very happily we live, free from hostility among those who are hostile. Among hostile people, free from hostility we dwell." -...

I recently bought a new computer for my daughter. I had all the virus protection soft wear added to it as she uses different sites to down...

If there's no wound on the hand, that hand can hold poison. Poison won't penetrate where there's no wound. There's no evil f...

When anger arises,whoever keeps firm control as if with a racing chariot: him I call a master charioteer. Anyone else, a rein-holder....that...

"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one ...... himself ". -Dha...

"As a single slab of rock won't budge in the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise, by blame". Dhammapada

No flower's scent goes against the wind ..... but the scent of the good does go against the wind. -Dhammapada

'The Right View" I was very disturbed to hear this story from a patient I saw last week at the clinic who presented with a hand in...

Last week, I was cleaning my flower bed in my garden to plant tulip bulbs. To my surprise I found a small brown patch of dead grass in my fr...

Like a beautiful flower full of color but without fragrance, even so, fruitless are the fair words of one who does not practice them. Just l...

I have a English cocker spaniel named Lance. Lance loves eggs, mango, banana and papaya. As a puppy we have trained him not to beg for food...

Buddha said "life is like a dew drop on a blade of grass"seen in the morning. When the sun shines the dew drop disappears. Buddha ...

Is this body really in your control? Do you own this body? How do you let go of obsessions about your body? In this post I will attempt to a...

Do you get annoyed or angry with people at work, home or on the road while driving? Yesterday I came across a woman driving a van with one h...