Tag: buddhism
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Against the grain
There is a Buddhist teacher named Pema Chodron who has famously declared that, “to be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”. I remember when I read this for the time, a droll smirk formed on my face. Accompanying this smirk, my internal dialogue muttered the word, ‘Great..’.…
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The middle way
I wish I could say it’s a generational thing, but my son expressing anxiety and stress due to his lack of knowing what the next few years look like is unsettlingly familiar. He’s been feeling discouraged and disillusioned with the university experience and is looking to apply to an exchange programme as a means of…
