Mindfulness and Compassion
Compassion is most real in the particulars, in our response to the immediacy of this moment. Every conscious act contributes to the healing of the...
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Navigating Rough Waters
Living our highest intentions can happen in great ways or in what may seem small—yet critical—ways of refusing to be conquered by the difficulties that...
Mindfulness of Feelings
Feelings are ever-present. They are a mysterious and rich dimension of our human life. But without mindfulness of them we can react automatically, habitually clinging...
Courage of the Heart
Very often what nourishes our spirit most is what brings us face to face with our greatest limitations and difficulties. Every life has periods and...
Awakening Self-Compassion
Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. —Buddha We are so quick to judge one another. And just as we are hard on...
Natural Joy
When love meets pain it becomes compassion. When love meets happiness, it becomes joy. Joy is an expression of the awakened heart, a quality of...
The Sacred Pause
Because experience happens so quickly, habitual responses can come out of our mouth before we know it. It helps to train ourselves to pause before...
Inattention and Delusion
With delusion we live our lives on automatic pilot. We walk down the street and return home without registering where we are and what is...
Blessings for the New Year
Dear ones, The year ends and we begin a new circuit around our own beautiful sun star, twirling amidst the galaxies. Take a breath, quiet...
Mindfulness of the Body
Listening deeply, your body will connect you back to the body of the Earth. As you sense that you are not separate from the planet,...
Moral Action and the Dharma
As a nation and a globe, we are going through divisive and painful times. Now is the season to stand up for what matters. To...
The Bodhisattva’s Path
The way of the bodhisattva is one of the most radical and powerful of all Buddhist forms of practice. It is radical because it states...
