Compassion

The Bodhisattva Response to Coronavirus

Epidemics, like earthquakes, tornadoes and floods are part of the cycle of life on planet Earth. How will we respond? With greed, hatred, fear and...

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Audio: Compassion in the Time of Coronavirus

This 13-minute practice is a way to hold yourself and all those around you in a heart of compassion. Visit the Pandemic Resources page on...

Audio: A Steady Heart in the Time of Coronavirus #1

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 107 – Change and Regeneration with Paul Hawken

How can we live with a Bodhisattva heart in these hard times? You can choose to quiet your mind and tend your heart, and become...

Video: Calm, Clarity, Compassion

We can choose to live in our fears, confusion, and worries, or to stay in the essence of our practice, center ourselves, and be the...

Calm, Clarity, Compassion

If we want to act wisely in the world, the first step is to learn to quiet the mind. If our actions are born from...

Video: Calm, Clarity, Compassion Meditation

Let the breath be natural. Let the heart be soft to receive whatever arises with compassion. Now with this embodied presence, begin to notice the...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 106 – Responding to Fear, Tragedy & Injustice

For this episode, we went back into the archives to just a few weeks after the events of 9/11 for a lesson on how we...

Fear of Happiness

Much of human suffering is caused by greed, hatred, fear and ignorance. When we let go of greed, hatred, fear and ignorance, and hold the...

The Courageous Heart

As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the explorer, bravely facing danger. In the Buddhist understanding, however,...

The World Needs Your Love

Guilt and anger and fear are part of the problem. If you want to save the world, save it because you love it! —Gary Snyder...