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INTERNAL EMPATHY

INTERNAL EMPATHY

When examining the resentment and ill will that surround my world, I have one safe strategy. I try to select a time when I can temporarily separate what I perceive as authentic from what others have created. Personally, these are incredibly unique moments that are...

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FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS

Without a deep personal commitment to self-forgiveness, we are destined to be chained to our past actions. It is not...

EVERBODY HURTS SOMETIMES

EVERBODY HURTS SOMETIMES

  The Sanskrit word, dukkha, has always brought both confusion and insight into the way I have viewed life. I have...

HOPE

HOPE

I have been reviewing various readers’ comments recently. Many focus on their spiritual journeys, while others offer...

ESCAPE SUFFERING

ESCAPE SUFFERING

  I am remembering a period of life when I was invited to explore the fundamental doctrine of Buddhism involving the...

IS A WORD JUST A WORD?

IS A WORD JUST A WORD?

As an author, I live in a dreamlike world of words. It is a brilliantly creative mental state that surveys most of...

GREAT ADVENTURES

GREAT ADVENTURES

I once told a friend that the secret to life was in orchestrating great adventures. The art of creating events...

BEING PRESENT

BEING PRESENT

I have been told that spiritual voyages produce strange occurrences. That our thinking adjusts as we unbend what we...

About Bud Megargee

Bud Megargee is a former senior behavioral healthcare executive; a Washington, DC., healthcare lobbyist; and an independently published, best-selling and award-winning author. He began writing after exploring Eastern philosophy and alternative medicine techniques in the professional treatment of emotional challenges at a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery.