Happiness Now
After more than 40 years teaching mindfulness and compassion to thousands on the spiritual path, the most important message I can offer is this: You...
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Time for Truth and Reconciliation
I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is...
Open to Mystery
Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Buddhist practice gives us...
Love Beyond Expectations
Romantic love can deepen when we let it. At first it is a kind of idol worship. It can come with idealism, possessiveness, jealousy, and...
Taming Addictive Tendencies of the Mind
Restraint serves as a counterbalance to the addictive tendencies of mind. There is a story in the Buddhist texts of a monkey living happily and...
Lover of the Moment
In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I...
Your Mind: Friend or Foe?
Who is your enemy? Mind is your enemy. No one can harm you more than your own mind untamed. And who is your friend? Mind...
Accepting One’s Quirky Personality
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell Looking closely at personality and temperament is...
Choose Love
We all want to love and be loved. Love is the natural order, the main attraction, the mover of nations, the bees in spring, the...
The Truth about Suffering
Without understanding the source of suffering, human beings strive to gain happiness by possessiveness and greed, through violence and hatred. We act out of delusion...
The Beauty of Beginner’s Mind
The wisdom of uncertainty frees us from what Buddhist psychology calls the thicket of views and opinions. “Seeing misery in those who cling to views,...
No to Anti-Muslim, No to Anti-Semitism, No to Hate
In these confusing and heated political times, there has been an increase in hate speech and action. In response, we need to rededicate ourselves and...