Romantic love can deepen when we let it. At first it is a kind of idol worship. It can come with idealism, possessiveness, jealousy, and…
Restraint serves as a counterbalance to the addictive tendencies of mind. There is a story in the Buddhist texts of a monkey living happily and…
Who is your enemy? Mind is your enemy. No one can harm you more than your own mind untamed. And who is your friend? Mind…
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…
On this episode of Heart Wisdom, Jack helps us figure out how to come back to our lives after a retreat, explores the power of…
When times are uncertain, difficult, fearful, full of change, they become the perfect place to deepen the practice of awakening. After viewing the elections….whatever your…
In a healthy response to pain and fear, we establish awareness before it becomes anger. We can train ourselves to notice the gap between the…
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification. We can begin to sense and observe the…
A succinct reminder of the ever-present possibility to step out from the blinders of our ordinary perception, from the fear and anxiety of modern life,…
How can our practice help us develop a healthy and full sense of self? How can we come to true self? There are several aspects…
Patience has a certain impatience built into it. In Zen the word is “constancy.” Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what…
