A friend notices over time that his spouse is exhibiting behaviour that could be early signs of dementia. His wife's friend, a registered nurse, confirms this privately to him. When his wife is acting strangely, he gets angry, then feels guilty because it could be illness causing her change in behaviour. Then he denies her symptoms. [...]
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Fear Visits
If we have a quantity of fear that we can't bear to examine, we cope by busying ourselves to ensure the unwelcome guest of fear does not set up residence in our mind. We busy ourselves with other "guests" - we turn on the TV that fills our environment with sound and images, we go [...]
Fear, Meditation and Relationship
Everyone is afraid sometimes. And when we practice meditation, we begin to notice and experience things that others do not. We might begin to fear that we could be rejected by others for talking about the things we notice during and after meditation. We may begin to notice our increased vulnerability in modern culture; the fragile invisible [...]
Suffering Ignorance
My last post examined attachment as a root of suffering. This post examines the role of ignorance, the second of three roots of suffering in the Buddhist philosophy. This concept is simple when explained in 21st century terms. First, the dictionary definition of ignorance is "a lack of information or knowledge". But the ignorance involved [...]
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