by Kate | Oct 20, 2021 | Advocacy, Chronic healing, chronic illness, Well-being
A friend was behind in her book club reading. “I have to read four chapters,” she sighed. Editing herself, she amended “I choose to read four chapters.” I suggested “you get to read four chapters.” She was re-ordering her thinking as we listened. Living with chronic...
by Kate | Oct 6, 2021 | kind promises
The Buddhist paramitas are those actions that result in character qualities associated with enlightened beings. As I learned it, the word means to cross over to the other side. On that side is sanity and wisdom. The six paramitas are generosity, discipline, patience,...
by Kate | Jan 7, 2022 | kind promises
Happy New Year! I am continuing the series I began last year on the Buddhist paramitas. The six paramitas are actions that we can take to bring ourselves and our world to sanity. The first three paramitas are generosity, discipline, and patience. (Links are to my blog...
by Kate | Oct 14, 2021 | Well-being
I am contemplating the Buddhist paramita of discipline this month. Another facet of meaning of the word in this context is ethics and morality. Traditionally, there are three categories of ethics: refraining from negative actionsdoing what is positivehelping others...
by Kate | Sep 18, 2021 | Well-being
When I’m feeling uncertain, I reach for structure. (Twenty years ago, in the days immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I cleaned my house. I realized after the fact that I was imposing order where I could on a disordered world.) Recent health challenges...
