What is it that is reactive? Our minds are reactive: liking and disliking, judging and comparing, clinging and condemning. Our minds are like a balance
“In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient andeternal law.”—Buddha
The Buddha’s teachings point to a non-contentious heart. “There is gain and loss, slander and honor, praise and blame, pleasure and pain; the awakened ones…
The mysterious quality we call Love involves stepping out of the body of fear and allowing something bigger to be born in us, all the…
We hear the word karma all the time. I heard it on the radio in an advertisement for cars, “It’s Bob Bridge’s karma to sell…
In meditation and in our spiritual life there grows a kind of trust in our capacity to open, to change, and to transform no matter…
We can practice the awakening of sacred perception in our daily life, step-by-step. 1) Wait for a day when you awaken in a fine…
The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible…
If we do not focus on human limits and pathology, what is the alternative? There is another orientation, a way to recover our human happiness.
The Buddhist tradition speaks directly about the hindrances that are encountered in the course of the spiritual journey. Buddha said that those who conquer their…
Spiritual practice requires of us a kind and devoted attention to the opening of the body as well as the heart. We cultivate the necessary…
A spacious walk through the shifts of identity that often occur as we move from the smaller sense of self into that place of loving…
