Right livelihood is a notion that does not exist in a vacuum, but is just one aspect of what the Buddha called the Eight-Fold Path (right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, right view and right resolve). Mindfulness, like right livelihood, is actually just one part of an entire system designed to …
I’m going to be talking about overwhelm. Let’s just look at the word for a minute, which I did. I have an Oxford English Dictionary in my office at work. I’m a university professor, among other incarnations. It is 1330 C.E. in the the dark ages in England and is the first time that the …
Navigating waves of stress in your life. It’s overwhelming isn’t it? You have to go to work, you have to have a ‘job’, you need to earn a living. On top of that you want to do something meaningful, something you love and something that gets you out of bed in the morning with a …