Dharma Reflections

Your partner walks out on you and into the arms of someone else. What are you going to do? Live in the past or move on?

Your partner walks out on you and into the arms of someone else.

What are you going to do?

Live in the past or move on?

 

A beloved friend has been married for around 15 years. That’s about double the length of time of an average marriage in the UK.

Her husband met another woman (no, not a younger woman) and after months of secret contact and secret Skypes  he left his loving wife for the new woman in his life. …

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A view on Adyashanti’s Teachings

Dharma practitioners contact me

about teachers and teachings.

Here is a view on the teachings

of Adyashanti of San Francisco.

 

Dharma practitioners ask or email me regularly my views on certain teachings and teachers, modern and ancient. I might receive a quote to give a general comment or am asked whether I would consider certain teachings as enlightened.

I have some experience in these matters of the spiritual life and am happy to share a view. I appreciate such discussions or emails as they encourage to me read about these teachings or watch on YouTube, a recorded talk, inquiry or satsang of the respective teacher. …

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There are religious Buddhists who claim there is rebirth. There are secular Buddhists who claim there is no rebirth. Are they both extremists?

There are religious Buddhists who claim there is rebirth.

There are secular Buddhists who claim there is no rebirth.

Are they both extremists?

You probably think that the Buddha believed in past lives and rebirth. If you read in the English translations of the 10,000 discourses of the Buddha, you will see a number of references to “past lives” and “rebirth.” …

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A Point of View on Setting Up of Personal Boundaries

I regularly hear from people their intention to set up personal boundaries within which they feel they have their own space, feel secure so that others know what is permissible in terms of their behaviour around them.  There is quite a lot of use of the concept “personal boundaries” in psychology. …

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