Can You Really Choose Happiness?

Yes, Sort Of, But Only After A Lot Of Work

Encountering Scripture

How Should We Approach Sacred Texts?

On Sensuality, Love, and Liberation

Three Approaches to Spirituality

What "Cattasallā" Means

Pulling Out The Thorn

Going in the Right Direction

Setting Your Spiritual Compass

Freedom from Liking and Disliking

Equanimity does not mean a joyless life

What does it mean to go with the flow?

Spontaneous wisdom, not confinement by craving

Finding Safety In Your Own Heart

Freedom from fear through trusting ourselves

Talk of Kings, Robbers, and Ministers of State

Speaking skillfully on politics and human rights

Good is Beautiful, Evil is Desolate

In English translations of the Buddha's discourses, we see the words "good" and "evil." We can understand these to mean actions of body, speech, and mind that are beneficial, versus those that are harmful, but these words are translated from a language separated from

Yes and No

The Two Parts of Making Mindfulness Work

Beautiful in the Beginning

The Substack Launch