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COMPRESSION and DEPRESSION
Sometimes what we call “depression” might really be something else. Instead, many of us walk around emotionally “compressed,” carrying more than we can hold; bracing ourselves so tight that we forget what it was like to breathe easily. From the outside, these feelings...
LEVELS of COMFORT
For the past few days, I have been huddled in my writing space compiling mental notes targeting the comforts of life –...
INTERNAL EMPATHY
When examining the resentment and ill will that surround my world, I have one safe strategy. I try to select a time...
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
The Sanskrit word, dukkha, has always brought both confusion and insight into the way I have viewed life. I have...
ILLUMINATION FROM KHENCHEN
Have you ever experienced moments when your ears perked up, after someone really understood who you were or what you...
ESCAPE SUFFERING
I am remembering a period of life when I was invited to explore the fundamental doctrine of Buddhism involving the...
HUMILITY and THE HUMAN WARRIOR
Recently a reader forwarded these questions: “With all of your research regarding the World of Souls, is there one...
An ILLUMINATING MOMENT of TRUTH
While writing about the unconventional world of souls, I searched for proper descriptive terms to convey my spiritual...
LOST INSPRATIONS and LOST HEROES
It’s Mother’s Day, where so many are sharing moments filled with sensitive phone calls, flowers, and miles after miles...
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...
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.