From over fifteen years of sharing her understanding of Buddhist concepts
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How to access your own inner wisdom
To conclude our exploration of the Wisdom Paramita, I’ll share an excerpt from my book Tapping the Wisdom Within, A Guide to Joyous Living, on how to find your own access to universal wisdom: In your hectic daily life where your priorities always seem to be outside yourself, the internal voices you are likely to hear…
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It’s not the road that’s bumpy!
We’ve been looking at the three characteristics of awakening as clues to what wisdom might be. We looked at anatta (no separate self) and anicca (impermanence), and now we will look at the third, dukkha, and how it relates to the other two. The word dukkha has no exact English translation. In Pali, the language…
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Things fall apart and it’s not your fault
Here we sit, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains. – Li Po As I write this I look out my window and see the mountain. Just yesterday at this time it was hidden by fog. The weather is one of the most changeable aspects of our lives. And for some of…
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What’s Wisdom? I don’t know. Yay!
We have been exploring the third Paramita*: Letting Go, learning how to hold whatever arises in our experience lightly. This naturally leads to the fourth Paramita, Wisdom. At the center of the beautifully-crafted structure of Buddhist concepts are the three universal characteristics of awakening. When looking at wisdom from a Buddhist perspective, these three essential…
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Living Lightly
The other day when I picked up my granddaughter from kindergarten, she told me that her teacher had taught them about ‘a powerful force that holds us to the earth.’ Her eyes were wide with Newtonian excitement. ‘You mean gravity?’ I asked. ‘Yes!’ she answered, delighted to share this wondrous secret. That night I had…
STEPHANIE NOBLE 