This Buddhist Life

Whether you’re simply curious about Buddhism, beginning your own practice, or have been walking the path for many years, I hope you’ll find something here that encourages you to pause, reflect, and perhaps see life a little more clearly.

Living the Buddha’s teachings, one day at a time.

This isn’t a website about having all the answers.

It’s a personal journey of meditation, pilgrimage, quiet reflection, and discovering how the Buddha’s teachings can be lived in everyday life.

Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, where chanting monks, prayer wheels, incense and pilgrims create a living place of devotion.

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🌿 Practice

Meditation, mindfulness and living the Dhamma in ordinary life.

🛕 Pilgrimage

Walking sacred places in Nepal and discovering why the journey matters.

❓ Questions

What is non-self?
Why do Buddhists walk around a stupa?
Can meditation change the way we suffer?

Not answers to memorise.

Questions worth exploring.

🍃Poetry

Short poems, photographs and quiet moments that ask nothing except your attention.

Come and see ….

This is one of Buddha’s most famous quotes, an invitation

  • Direct Experience: Truth is found by looking inward and observing reality yourself.
  • Not Blind Faith: The Buddha famously advised in the Kalama Sutta not to believe something just because it is old, logical, or spoken by a teacher.
  • Personal Effort: No one else can give you peace or clear away your suffering; they can only point the way for you to walk

“Like many people, I’ve spent much of my life searching for certainty. What I eventually found was something quieter: a way of looking at experience that asks for observation instead of unquestioning belief.”

8 thoughts on “This Buddhist Life”

  5. Good morning, brother,

    Thank you very much for liking one of my posts.

    I don’t know a great deal about Buddhism, but coincidentally, I met a man yesterday who said he was from Nepal. He was talking about Mount Everest 🙂

    I’m a Christian and believe the Bible is the Word of God – in a sense, God’s storybook for humankind.

    Have you had an opportunity to read the Bible, brother?

    With love

    Steven

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    1. Good morning Steven, yes I have read the Bible, I spent my childhood as a Methodist. Have you read The Dhammapada? It’s a guide to living an ethical life free from the suffering of desire hatred and delusion from The Buddha, but it’s the Sutras which describe all of his teachings if you want to look further.

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      1. Thanks for responding.

        As a Christian, I feel I have landed upon the ultimate truth and I find the Bible to be inexhaustible in its guidance and wisdom. But I know people can stray from a Bible-focused life for any number of reasons. I suppose if you have been baptised into Christ, you remain a Christian. Were you baptised, brother?

        I explored Buddhism to some extent but after praying about it, God doesn’t seem to want me to follow up on your advice to read The Dhammapada.

        If you have a couple of spare minutes, do take a look at my website (linked from my blog’s homepage). I think you would find the Book of Mercy especially very interesting.

        Have a wonderful day. If you are willing to share your name, I would love to address you personally.

        Best wishes,

        Steven

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