Samsara sucks! Yet it is human nature to try and make sense of it all. Psychologist George Kelly, who invented the psychological model of ‘constructs’ pointed out that people don’t mind suffering and hardship so much if they have a way of making sense of it. When you can’t make sense of the world around …
Author Archives: Pandit
Tales of Karma
A recent tale you might call karma, or justice … Burglar got stuck in lift A German thief was sunk after he got stuck in the lift of an office block he’d just burgled. Heinrich Klopp, 27, had raided an office on the sixth floor, taking computers, mobile phones and other electronic goods. He decided …
Notes on Karma
Notes for the final talk at Wat Yannawa 2008. Topic : Karma Sanskrit = Karma Pali = kamma But the word kama (with a long ‘a’ sound) means sense desire – usually referring to lust. This is where we get the sexual ‘kama sutra’ from. Kamma is one of those topics in Buddhism that attracts …
Richard Reoch Talk
A great event coming up on October 8th 2008 : The Shambhala Legend of Enlightened Society: Words of Wisdom for a World at War With Richard Reoch Wednesday October 8th, 2008 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Free of charge and open to all. Drawing from his years of experience working for peace and human rights …