Gord Clements

I am in the city of Mandalay and I am teaching English to children in a monastery. I will be here for a week. Iris is doing surgery in a village at a monastery. I am in the city of Mandalay and I am teaching English to children in a monastery. I will be here [...]

In a discussion with a friend who was struggling with his return to Germany after over ten years of volunteer work in Africa and Asia he said  to me that according to Buddhism it doesn’t matter where a person chooses to live, that what is important is that one observe. I am not an expert [...]

I have realised that in becoming awake to the present moment there is a sense that there is something missing. In awareness I can see that this is an aspect of  developing consciousness. There is as well an instinctive response is to react in a way that involves action aimed at alleviating this sense. This [...]

This expression of emptiness is from Thanissaru Bhihkku.  Emptiness is a mode of perception, a way of looking at experience. It adds nothing to, and takes nothing away from, the raw data of physical and mental events. You look at events in the mind and the senses with no thought of whether there’s anything lying [...]

I feel that have changed so very much in the last few years. Meditation has helped me to come to know myself better. The vulnerability that I once felt, at times consciously and mostly unconsciously in past years, I still feel. I mistook this vulnerability for a weakness at that time and perceived it to [...]