The Wisdom of Insecurity
We can plan, we can care for, tend and respond. But we cannot control. Instead we take a breath, and open to what is unfolding,...
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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...
Video: Beauty and Human Goodness Amidst It All Dharma Talk
We can tune into the goodness of the world that’s not always featured in the news. This is an invitation to understand equanimity and to...
The Wisdom of Not Knowing
Wisdom is not knowing but being. The Christian mystics instructed seekers to enter the Cloud of Unknowing with a trusting heart. The wise heart is...
Identification with Self
One of the deepest and most demanding aspects of Buddhist psychology is the experience of non-self. Ajahn Chah said, “You have to consider and contemplate...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 102 – The Wisdom of the One Who Knows
What aspect of ourselves has been with us before our first breath and is the last to go when we die? In this podcast we...
Awaken the One Who Knows
As your spacious heart opens, you can rediscover the vast perspective you’d almost forgotten. A spacious heart reveals the spacious mind. This is the mind...
Stop the War Within
We human beings are constantly in combat, at war to escape the fact of being so limited, limited by so many circumstances we cannot...
Fear and Anger
Aversion, anger, and hatred are states of mind that strike against experience, pushing it away, rejecting what is presented in the moment. They do not...
The Colorings of Consciousness
Consciousness is colored by the states that visit it.—Buddha “Eh,” my teacher Ajahn Chah would peer at me when I was having a hard time,...
Freedom from Suffering
“In a world of tension and breakdown it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding...
