If you tend your inner life by taking time to meditate and connecting with your body and heart, after a while your nervous system learns…
Buddhist teachings have been taught as both philosophy and religion but in its original form, Buddhist teachings are really a science of the mind. If…
To cultivate generosity directly is another fundamental part of living a spiritual life. Like meditation, generosity can actually be practiced. With practice, its spirit forms…
“Learning the Middle Path, the life of balance, allows the heart’s natural awareness and compassion to grow. We become free and gracious.” – Jack Kornfield…
Through our various spiritual practices we are bearing witness to our human incarnation in a way that is unlike any other. We can find joy,…
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not. Suffering arises from grasping. Release grasping and be free of suffering. Anyone who has had even the briefest introduction…
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question…
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…
People often struggle to understand karma. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect, and in our lives this law of cause and effect…
You are part of the web of life, so you don’t need to hold on so tightly. Ultimately, who you are is awareness itself. No…
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…
