Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... It's All Part of the Path “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” - Ram Dass There’s an old Zen saying: “Chop wood, carry water.” This proverb reminds us that the spiritual path is not separate from everyday life. We don’t become wiser...

Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... If You Had Only One Year to Live If you had only one year to live, what would you do? Quit your job? Travel the world? Join a sangha? Get a divorce? Apologize to your sister? When we’re posed a question like this, our minds may experience a mix of excitement and panic. Only a year? But I haven’t lived enough. And yet, when we slow...

Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... When Your Practice Falls Apart Growing up in Nepal, I was surrounded by religion. Everywhere you walked in Kathmandu, you’d see a Hindu shrine or Buddhist stupa. Offering water and saying prayers were part of our family’s daily routine. In Nepal, and especially in my family, it was hard not to practice. When I moved to the U.S. at...