Love and faith have seen me through some tough personal challenges in the past 2 years. Self-love needs to come first before genuinely loving others. For a long time, I confused self-love with self-obsession. If you’re making the effort of practising self-love, you tend not to harm others. If you’re…

Preface: Violence is never acceptable. Yes! Women do commit violence against men and children, however, the statistics of harm demonstrate that violence against women and children has far higher individual and social impacts. …

Sit. Be still. Relish in the emptiness. Our true existence is formless, inseparable from the entire universe. I’m referring to our soul, spirit, being; call it what you like. We’ve been tricked into believing in the physical ‘person’ that we are and that individually we have rank and that status…

Eternity is the debut collection of prose from Australian writer Evan Guerra, inviting readers on a self-reflective journey through birth, innocence, suffering and finally to death. Guerra’s poetic and emotionally driven writing explores; the importance of dreams, overcoming depression and anxiety, devotion and endearment, the duality of human nature and…

Up until this morning the notion of a Buddhist Jew had honestly never crossed my mind. It was my understanding that Judaism and its gospel the Torah wouldn’t exhibit any similar teachings seen in Buddhism. Obviously I was wrong. Known colloquially as a Jubu, Gutman Locks explains the fundamentals behind the concept. While I was confused at first, to simplify it, a Jubu is ethnically Jewish however believes also in Buddhist teachings and meditation.

by Evan Guerra I am a pessimist. I am an optimist. I’m the Pessimistic Optimist. I am a child of strength, yet a coward whimpering in a corner. I am a child of loyalty, yet a child likely to stab you in the back. My hands have labored hard, but…

A journey to visit every Temple in Bangkok, Thailand. See map. Temples in order of walk. Wat Sri Bunruang ✔ 2. Wat Pathumwanaram Ratchaworawihan ✔ 3. Holy Redeemer Church ✔ 4. The Erawan Shrine ✔ 5. Wat That Thong ✔ 6. Wat Pasee ✔ Wat Sri Bunruang

Nonsensical & Sporadic #3 by Evan Guerra Come on. Say it with me. I believe in the power of possibility and the promise of perseverance. This is a newly concocted mantra I’ve been reciting for the past few weeks to muster up motivation. …

I recently posted the above photograph of my girlfriend and I onto my Instagram feed. Because you know. That’s what the gram is for. Sharing selfies. The photograph I took on my DSLR inside a grand Buddhist temple called Wat Sothon Wararam, located in the Chachoengsao province of Thailand, roughly…