The Sacred Pause
Because experience happens so quickly, habitual responses can come out of our mouth before we know it. It helps to train ourselves to pause before...
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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 124 – Conflict and Reconciliation
Conflict really starts in the heart with our attachments and our needs and our desires. We need to pause for a moment and reflect on...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 123 – Breathe Love In, Breathe Love Out Meditation
Take whatever gifts of understanding your body and heart and spirit offer, and the quieting of your mind and tending of your heart and breath,...
Video: Reconciliation Dharma Talk
Conflict is natural—we can be attached to our needs, desires, ideas and visions. Our brains are wired with a negativity bias to look for things...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 122 – Suffering Is Not the End of the Story
The point of liberation is not to transcend this world, to find some peaceful bliss, to run away to some cave. The point of liberation...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 121 – Reflect on Gratitude
Gratitude is a gracious acknowledgment of all that sustains us, a bow to our blessings, great and small. Gratitude is the confidence in life itself....
Video: Breathe Love In, Breathe Love Out Meditation
With each breath in, fill your body and being with lovingkindness for yourself. With each breath out, sense you are sending love out to the...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 120 – Seeding Goodness
Don’t think that the seeds that you plant won’t make a difference. With equanimity, with a peaceful heart and a vast mind, you water the...
Mindfulness of the Body
Listening deeply, your body will connect you back to the body of the Earth. As you sense that you are not separate from the planet,...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 116 – Equanimity and the Heart of Compassion
Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it’s understood in Buddhist psychology that if we only practice...
Video: Suffering Is Not the End of the Story
Suffering is not the end of the story. We can get lost in our suffering. But we can also be witness to bravery and the...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 114 – The Peaceful Heart
What is the peaceful heart? What keeps us from it? The near-enemy, the quality that masquerades as equanimity, is indifference. Indifference is a not-caring, it’s...