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…
Tag: Compassion
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…
The Truth about Suffering
Without understanding the source of suffering, human beings strive to gain happiness by possessiveness and greed, through violence and hatred. We act out of delusion…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 53 – Wounds and Gifts with Duncan Trussell & Raghu Markus
Jack sits down with Raghu Markus and Duncan Trussell to talk about finding the gifts in suffering that transforms how we interact with the world.…
No to Anti-Muslim, No to Anti-Semitism, No to Hate
In these confusing and heated political times, there has been an increase in hate speech and action. In response, we need to rededicate ourselves and…
Heart and Conduct
One way we create identity is seeing ourself as a member of a particular ethnic group, religion, tribe, caste, and class. I can identify myself…
Tolerance in Difficult Times
Traditional teachings focus so often on love and its transformative spirit that we can overlook a more basic and fundamental power—the tolerant heart. Human differences…
