illness

Gotsampa
Mahamudra

Gotsampa – Seven Delights: A Song About Taking Difficult Circumstances to the Path

I came across this the other day .. what a delight! Taking everything onto the path … nothing is outside of the path, nothing is essentially problematic …. all is the path, all is mind, all is same taste ….  Namo Ratna Guru ! When thoughts that there is something perceived and a perceiverLure my […]

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Longchenpa
Dzogchen

Prayer of Compassion following London Bombing

May the lives of ailing sentient beings be extended and made meaningful.May those who are suffering from hunger or thirst obtain sustenance,Those who are afflicted by external fears become fearless,And everything that beings desire be granted exactly as they wish.May all sentient beings do good and swiftly attain enlightenment.May those in power rule with justice,Governments

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Health and Illness - 1857 Lithograph by Armand Gautier
General Buddhism

A Vantage Point

One of the nice things about being ill is that the circumstances of your life are rather different from ‘normal’, and as a result, it gives you a different vantage point from which to view how things are. Instead of the usual routine, you are forced into a different one, one which may well disrupt

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Shadows And Dust painting by Alexander Millar
Mahamudra

Sick and Well

Yesterday I started to catch a cold. My mind was very cloudy indeed, and I felt like I was floating in a cloud. It was really hard to focus on anything and retain that focus as I tended to drift off into blankness. Mentally, it was real hard to apply myself to work, and thoughts

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Suffering
Mahayana

The Compassion Gap

The last few days (whilst ill) I’ve been reflecting on how painful it is watching other people suffer. And how hard it is to help them to see the causes of their suffering. So often when we suffer we can see what is going on, where the attachment is, where the resistance to how things

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