Pema Chodron

Compassion in Buddhism: Why does Kuan Yin have so many hands?
May 18, 2024
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tom davidson-marx
Kuan Yin is an archetype of compassion in Buddhism. Sometimes portrayed as female, or male, or androgynously, they manifest the impulse to help suffering beings. In his celebrated Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot observed: Human kind cannot bear very much reality. Reality is a lot to take sometimes. One teacher says this practice builds our
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not a caravan of despair
July 13, 2023
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tom davidson-marx
Do you have a fear of missing out on a more spiritual experience doing a mountain of laundry, washing a sinkful of dishes, or raking leaves till kingdom come? The meditation teacher Karen Maezen Miller, in a piece published in Lion’s Roar, rightfully calls us on this thought, while describing how the domestic lives of
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when is the best time to meditate?
July 10, 2022
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tom davidson-marx
… when the mind complains it does NOT want to meditate, says the Buddhist monk U Tejaniya I’m going to assume that you are like most of us who are into meditation–you struggle maintaining a regular practice, right; you might even ask when is the best time to meditate. The instructions are so very simple—be
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