Desire is like energy. In its basic form, it’s neither good nor bad. Desire only become a problem when it is clung to.

The truth about suffering and why it happens.

True refuge in one sense the knowing that there is no safety to be found in the changing conditions of life.

Nature is no longer something we are passing through on the way to getting somewhere else; rather, nature is passing through us.

It could be said that Grail stories were lay persons’ ways of charting and describing a necessary and good spiritual path. — Richard Rohr

A lost dog leads to insights about karma and kindness..

The Five Aggregates of Clinging are a practical method for understanding the nature of self.

Western culture equates comfort with success, whereas suffering marks you as a failure.

The Buddhist understanding of happiness is deeper than most of us can imagine — but that’s not a problem.

The path that leads away from suffering never gets old.