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...
Buddhist Psychology
Understanding Your Own Mind
In popular Western culture we are taught that the way to achieve happiness is to change our external environment to fit our wishes. But this...
Why We Suffer
Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in the totality of this...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 71 – The Essence of Buddhist Psychology: Cultivating Loving Awareness
From the beginning in Buddhist psychology, compassion and awareness are what went together. In order to be present for experience there has to be some...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 70 – The Essence of Buddhist Psychology: Part 1
Buddhist teachings have been taught as both philosophy and religion but in its original form, Buddhist teachings are really a science of the mind. If...
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,...
Forgiveness Repairs the World
Buddhist psychology offers specific teachings and practices for the development of forgiveness. Like the practice of compassion, forgiveness does not ignore the truth of our...
Healthy Desire
Buddhist psychology teaches us to distinguish between the painful desire of addiction and driven ambition and the healthy energies of dedication and commitment. A dream...
Video: Generosity Dharma Talk
https://vimeo.com/149467001 Notice how love, generosity, flexibility, ease, and simplicity are natural to us. These states are important to notice. They give us trust in...
Practice: Seeing from the Universal Perspective
Buddhist psychology is filled with practices that shift us to the universal perspective. These include contemplations on the vastness of time, the cycles of impermanence,...
The Compass of the Heart
We hear the word karma all the time. I heard it on the radio in an advertisement for cars, “It’s Bob Bridge’s karma to sell...
Optimal Mental Health
“With wisdom let your mind full of love pervade one quarter of the world, and so to the second, third and fourth quarter. Fill the...
