Gavril Nikolaev
Our next community meeting is scheduled for Nov. 2, 2025. It will start at 9 a.m. PST and will last for 30-45 minutes. During our time together, we’ll discuss contemporary Buddhist teachers. Think of it as an opportunity to meet new people and share your experiences. All our meetings are casual and unstructured to facilitate free flow of ideas: … Read more
The first thing people usually learn about Buddhism is that it’s aimed at ending human suffering. This is what newcomers like to discuss online when trying to deepen their understanding. And this is what one Redditor did when he asked, “If life has suffering, why not just try to numb yourself with goals (seeing beautiful … Read more
Much has been written about lovingkindness, compassion, and altruistic joy in my previous articles. Now we turn to equanimity, the last of the four brahmavihara meditations, also known as the four sublime states of mind. The most important thing to keep in mind about equanimity, or upekkha, is that all three other brahmaviharas are implicit … Read more
I was listening to “Touching the Eternal,” a recording of seven-day India retreat organized by a spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. Toward the end of the audio book, what I assume was the last day of the retreat, a woman rose up from the audience to offer something unusual — a poem she wrote in the … Read more