Brahmavihara:

Buddhist tenets for boundless peace

It is a fact of life that most of us are troubled by difficult emotional states in the pressured societies we live in, but do little in terms of developing skills to deal with them. One of the most important questions we come to in spiritual practice is how to reconcile responsible action with a Buddhist life based on non-attachment,

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Vignettes

Spare a thought for insects

Insects are found in almost all parts of the world. They would have been inhabiting the earth long before humans appeared. However, the relationship between humans and insects has not been constant. In ancient civilisations, man lived in harmony with insects. He did not want to exterminate them for any reason.

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Thorns on the Side

A close call

We are living on one big spaceship called Planet Earth. We are going on a cosmic journey in space with no final destination. We share our little corner of the Milky Way galaxy with thousands of other space objects and collisions are inevitable at some point.

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