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...
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From Self-Hate to Compassion
In 1989, at one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings, we Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame...
Awakening to Your Buddha Nature
“O Nobly Born” the Buddhist texts begin, remember your Buddha Nature. Remember your innate capacity for dignity, understanding and vast compassion. These gifts were born...
Believe in Your Goodness
Robert Johnson, the noted Jungian analyst, acknowledges how difficult it is for many of us to believe in our goodness. We more easily take our...
Wonderful, Messy Failure
We all face praise and blame, joy and sorrow, gain and loss. To have compassion for your human vulnerability is a blessed, tender practice. Poet...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 66 – Levels of Liberation
Without mindfulness, we exist in the cycle of living known as samsara. We examine how the different levels of mindfulness practice allow us to shed...
Happiness Now
After more than 40 years teaching mindfulness and compassion to thousands on the spiritual path, the most important message I can offer is this: You...
Audio: Meditation on Equanimity
Equanimity is a wonderful quality, a spaciousness and balance of heart. Although it grows naturally with our meditation practice, equanimity can also be cultivated in...
Meditation on Compassion
May you be held in compassion. To cultivate compassion, let yourself sit in a centered and quiet way. In this traditional form of practice you...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 59 – A Bodhisattva in the World
A Bodhisattva is one who has tread the path to freedom laid out by the Buddha and dedicates their life to sharing that with the...
Accepting One’s Quirky Personality
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell Looking closely at personality and temperament is...
Choose Love
We all want to love and be loved. Love is the natural order, the main attraction, the mover of nations, the bees in spring, the...