Part of the process of meditation and spiritual practice is to come to rest in our being, to a center that is unshakable. It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t move in the wind, but that there’s a place in the heart where we’ve touched an ability to feel all the things of...
Real courage is the courage of the heart… It’s the courage to investigate, to look, to see what’s true inside ourselves. One of the wonderful things about practice is each moment, in each thing we do in our life, is a new opportunity to be mindful, to be complete, to...
In this dharma talk from 1977, we explore working with wisdom, power, and knowledge on your spiritual path, and why it’s so important to walk the Middle Way. There is endless knowledge to pursue and endless powers to be cultivated. We cover the Buddha’s four...
In this dharma talk, we explore a few truths about life: things change, each moment contains both light and darkness, opinions are fleeting. Our direct experiences of these truths can lead to freedom. Life is really about seeing with the heart, living each moment with...
In this dharma talk, we explore mudita. Mudita invites us to open a channel to joy, delight, and creativity. Joy arises, like the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree, from following the heart’s silent source. When we get still, and the mind quiets, and the heart...
In this dharma talk, we explore seeing the world with the heart of wisdom and what it means when we rest in The One Who Knows. This is who you are, consciousness itself. The One Who Knows sees life is short, that human incarnation is a realm of paradox, that we really...
