Sometimes you need a story more than food. Sometimes to hear a story and sometimes to tell it. We all carry personal stories we long to write and family stories that haunt us. Of course, stories have value. As a teacher and storyteller, I have come to respect their...
Equanimity is the willingness to be in life, but to be spacious and open, to have a vast perspective and say, “Yes, here I am, showing up, caring and loving, but I’m not in control of this game.” When we stop even for a moment, when we meditate, when we...
How can we cultivate the qualities of mindful loving awareness? How do we listen to the pulse of the world? How do we listen to one another? Mindfulness becomes a gateway for our healing and liberation. This is a radical act. The Buddha said there is a healing that...
In this podcast I’m joined by Chade-Meng Tan for an exploration of how spiritual practice and the search inside ourselves can guide us through our human predicament. Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is an award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, thought...
As you practice in Dharma you get a sense that the allowing of things is what brings freedom. In this episode, we begin with a reflection on the paradoxical course of awakening laid out by The Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta. We look at the path of liberation offered...
One of the important qualities of a meditative life, or opening one’s self to a spiritual dimension, is that it is an opening to beauty, an opening to some sense of rhythm and happiness in the world. To the extent that we can tend all of the parts of ourselves, to...
