by Bud Megargee | Jun 4, 2025 | Articles
For the past few days, I have been huddled in my writing space compiling mental notes targeting the comforts of life – or – in some cases, their absence. At the end of each day, I found myself focusing on how life relationships develop and impact our desired...
by Bud Megargee | May 8, 2025 | Articles
I have come to believe that there are four groupings in life: birth, aging, illness, and death. Everyone must face these collective passageways as they move through life. I am amazed, however, at how I have passively progressed through these categories without much...
by Bud Megargee | Mar 28, 2025 | Articles
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...
by Bud Megargee | Feb 9, 2025 | Articles
Without a deep personal commitment to self-forgiveness, we are destined to be chained to our past actions. It is not about finding the direction to justify one’s actions or feelings. Nor is it a method of reconciliation. It is about ownership and complete...
by Bud Megargee | Jan 14, 2025 | Articles
The Sanskrit word, dukkha, has always brought both confusion and insight into the way I have viewed life. I have tried to imagine its intention as a method to reflect the suffering of the masses; the unsatisfactory accrual of everyday strife that we all face....
by Bud Megargee | Nov 24, 2024 | Articles
Have you ever experienced moments when your ears perked up, after someone really understood who you were or what you were trying to say? When that person “sees” the true you? Although I have lost contact with Khenchen, my gentle, elderly monk friend, the strength of...
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.