Your Mind: Friend or Foe?
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...
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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...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 50 – The Bodhisattva and the Power of Intention
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...
Practicing the Dharma In Uncertain Times
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...
“The blues is the truth.”
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...
Video: Learning to Surf
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...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 41 – Seeing Anew
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,...
Reclaiming Our Lost Sense of Self
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 is the Wrong Word
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...
Video: Exploring the Shadow (Wisdom 2.0)
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 worst...
Moving Toward Freedom
Learning takes place only in a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.—Krishnamurti There are four principles for mindful transformation of difficulties, poetically articulated by Michele...
