Author: Selfless Anatta
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Tibetan Buddhist Lamrim: Your Precious Human Life
The Lamrim teachings in Tibetan Buddhism place great importance on recognizing the value of a precious human life on the spiritual path. Most people take their lives for granted and fail to recognize its significance. Since none of us can stop being human, and each day we wake up, we are human, it’s understandable why…
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Just Say No to Pharmaceutical Drugs
The Pharmaceutical industry exists primarily to enrich shareholders on the government dime at your expense.
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The Toll of Anger: Why Getting Angry Isn’t Worth It
Overcome anger by recognizing its many faults and practicing patient acceptance. Whenever I get angry, I recognize it immediately. Most people do. Anger leaves little doubt when it arises, and it manifests in obvious ways. Many people become angry, but then do little or nothing to manage it, believing it’s a natural reaction that should…
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Emptiness of Self: The Key to Buddhist Enlightenment
Buddhists say the self is an illusion. Modern neuroscience says you hallucinate your existence from one moment to the next.
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Wedge Salads: How to Penetrate the Shield of Arrogance
How my wife outsmarted me and beat me at my own game.
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Golf is Life
If you want to know a person’s character, observe them for a round of golf, and all will be revealed.
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A Special Needs Parent’s Worst Nightmare
A minor incident in line at Costco turns into a deadly bloodbath. Imagine you are standing in line at Costco waiting to get rotisserie chicken. You are there with your spouse, and your special needs child, now a grown adult. Your adult child is upset by the crying from a toddler being held by his…
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How to Understand Karma and Apply It to Your Life
You don’t need to believe in magnetism to use a compass.