The deepest insight of the Buddha is his insight into what we really are. We think of ourselves as static and unchanging, a something or...

I have been writing about forgiveness, that it is a process involving patience, looking into the core of our own wronging of others, and...

If you look into times when you have done something that has hurt another person, you can learn quite a bit. Most of the time, you...

Sometimes we are afraid to forgive. It feels as though we would somehow lose power by forgiving someone. We fear that it would make us...

Consider for a moment: how do you know that you exist? Your existence probably seems so obvious to you, that you never consider whether...

Imagine you have travelled to an island alone. You have inside information that there is treasure buried on the island, and you have...

One time when I had just started my psychology practice and didn’t have many clients, I found myself thinking about the psychologists I...

I wrote last time about the first way of practicing mindfulness that the Buddha had taught: mindfulness of the body. This is the...

How do we actually practice mindfulness? The Buddha recommended four major ways to practice mindfulness. The first of these is...

In Italian there is a wonderful expression: Il dolce far niente. It means the sweetness of doing nothing. When I told my Italian friend...