Fear of Change: What the Buddha Actually Taught
Fear of change is one of the most universal human experiences, and something in your life may be triggering it right now - or about to. A job ending. A relationship shifting. A move, a…
Author: The Peaceful Buddha
Stop Comparing Yourself to Others – A Buddhist Approach
Buddha Teachings · Comparison · Inner Peace · Self Acceptance Comparing yourself to others usually starts the same way. You open your phone. Someone you know just got promoted. Someone else is traveling. Another person's…
You Are Enough: What the Buddha Actually Taught About Worth
You are enough - even before you become the version of yourself you think you need to be in order to feel okay. There is a version of yourself you are waiting to become before…
Buddha Nature: You Already Have Everything You Need
This is the Buddha's teaching on Buddha nature, and it starts with something simple: watch a baby learning to walk. They fall. They rise. They fall again. They have never walked before in their life…
How to Stop Worrying About Things You Can’t Control
Worrying about things you can't control is something almost everyone does, and it rarely helps. There is something you are worried about right now that you cannot do anything about - at least not in…
Noble Silence: What Buddha Actually Taught
Noble silence is something we've almost entirely forgotten how to practice. We live in a world that never stops talking. Notifications, opinions, arguments, commentary, the noise is constant, and somewhere in it, we have forgotten…
Lonely in a Crowd? What Buddha Taught About Real Connection
Lonely in a crowd is a strange but common feeling. You have more ways to connect with people than any generation in history. A device in your pocket can reach anyone, anywhere, instantly. Thousands of…
This Too Shall Pass: Buddha’s Teaching on Impermanence
This too shall pass. Whatever you are going through right now, the pain, the fear, the exhaustion, the grief, there is one thing the Buddha returned to again and again across his forty-five years of…
Why We Fear Death: Buddha’s Teaching on Maranasati
Why we fear death is rarely something we ask directly. Most of us do not think about death, not deliberately, not directly, not in a way that stays. We know, in the abstract, that we…
Don’t Accept Their Anger: What Buddha Did
Don't accept their anger, that's the entire lesson in what happened next. A man walked up to the Buddha and began cursing him. For five full minutes, he hurled insults, rage, contempt, everything he had.…