In this special episode of the Heart Wisdom Podcast, we honor the life and wisdom of my early Vipassana teacher, S.N. Goenka. In every generation,…
In this podcast I’m joined by Chade-Meng Tan for an exploration of how spiritual practice and the search inside ourselves can guide us through our…
In popular Western culture we are taught that the way to achieve happiness is to change our external environment to fit our wishes. But this…
A highlight of a recent teaching trip Trudy and I took to France and England was working with members of the British Parliament. After observing…
As we reflect on the difficult and divisive time that the world finds itself in, let’s look at the ways that inner development, through mindfulness…
Loving-awareness allows a profound shift of identity from a small limited sense of self to one of spacious wisdom. Exploring questions about freedom and identity…
Once concentrated, the mind can be directed in specific ways. This function is called “malleability of mind” in Buddhist psychology. It means that we can…
Wisdom grows out of our clear seeing in each moment. Seeing the arising and passing of our experience and how we relate to it. It…
Hatred and aversion are all states of mind that strike against experience, pushing it away, rejecting what is presented in the moment. They do not…
