And so this is Xmas, as somebody famous once wrote. At best I used to feel ambivalent about this time of year, but most often I just felt a deep sense of aversion and loathing as my energy trails away and depression and anxiety take hold. Some might say that this pattern reveals a failure in my Buddhist practice – they might be right, but who knows for sure? For over two decades this was the way. I would watch […]
Archive | December, 2013
Search
The Anxious Buddhist FREE ebook
A FREE e-book that takes a look at Anxiety Disorder from a Buddhist perspective.
Download your copy now!
The Anxious BuddhistArchives
Tags
Anger
Bodhisattva
Buddhahood
Cause & Effect
Compassion
Courage
Daimoku
Daisaku Ikeda
Discrepancy
Emptiness
experience
Gohonzon
Gosho
Gratitude
hell
Ichinen Sanzen
Impermanence
Karma
Kosen Rufu
Lotus Sutra
Mindfulness
Nagarjuna
Nichiren
Nichiren Buddhism
Nirvana Sutra
Poetry
pure land
Shakabuku
Shantideva
Shoju
Soka Gakkai
Ten Worlds
T’ien-t’ai
Zen
Sites We Like
Recent Posts
- The Endless Further – A Tribute
- My incense was so incensed!
- When the precepts don’t feel like precepts
- Victory
- Impermanence, depression, and the crows
- Screaming in silence
- Duality is to capitalism
- The womb of compassion
- SGI UK – a look back and a look forward
- The horse and the pond
- The knot of hope
- Why does compassion have to be boundless?
- Fixing the Dharmic plumbing
- The dogma of atheism
- Mindlessness can lead to baby eating
- The life of Nichiren Daishonin
- Faith is a well baked loaf
- Liberation from cannabis
- Was Nichiren Daishonin saved by the Dalai Lama?
- Persecution and extremism
- Would you do this on faith alone?
- Say it ain’t so – Silence continues on plight of Burmese Muslims
- Meditation in Nichiren Buddhism
- The difficulty of middle way thought