Experiences, Not Things, Improve With Time When I purchased my first generation iPhone, I thought, “Man this is really something. It’s going to change the way we use phones.” Well, of course it did. Then along came the 3G, 4S 5, 7 and now 8. Each phone I’ve owned was great when it was new, but as it aged, somehow it became less satisfactory; it wasn’t as fast, didn’t have enough memory, the screen wasn’t high definition enough, etc. Simply put, there were lots of reason

From an article on Buddhistdoor All living beings desire happiness and recoil from suffering. When the Buddha said he taught suffering and the end of suffering, rather than being pessimistic, he was being optimistic. When the Buddha explained dukkha (Pali. suffering, discontent), he explicated its cause, how to eradicate its cause, and the method of practice leading to its eradication. He taught us the way to avoid suffering. Happy will he be who knows how to bring an end to

Excerpt from My Buddhist Journal; A Year in the Life of a Buddhist ... and that begs the question, “Is there a higher form of happiness that is less transient?” It turns out there may be. And on to still another Buddhist list and a higher form of happiness 1 loving-kindness or benevolence 2 compassion 3 empathetic joy 4 equanimity Love and kindness. We want this intention to manifest itself in some physical form. It’s not merely saying I have the intention of kindness, bu