Mindfulness, Liberation, and the Buddha

No Part Left Out: Your Life as Your Path

“Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars.” – Buddha What matters in life is simple. Are you free and loving? Are you...

Freedom to Make Mistakes

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Step out. Fly. It is never too late to start over. In this way you learn what is called...

Video: Wise Society Dharma Talk

The inner practice of liberation is not an individual matter. One of the deepest realizations that comes when we meditate is the growing sense of...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 154 – Awakening In The Midst Of Life

In this “Heart Wisdom” podcast episode we discuss the process of awakening, life’s 10,000 joys and sorrows, and what role time and the present moment...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 152 – The Most Basic Truths

To free ourselves, we need to quiet the mind through mindfulness in meditation. Then, instead of identifying with the changing conditions, we learn to release...

Finding the Middle Way

If we seek happiness purely through indulgence, we are not free. If we fight against ourselves and reject the world, we are not free. It...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 141 – How and Why We Become Enlightened

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 141 – How and Why We Become Enlightened

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 122 – Suffering Is Not the End of the Story

The point of liberation is not to transcend this world, to find some peaceful bliss, to run away to some cave. The point of liberation...

Video: Rekindle and Renew Dharma Talk

Many of us discover we live partially in a dreamworld, cut off from whole pieces of our life, our body, our past. Though we may...

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 119 – Listen With the Heart

What these divisive times ask for more than anything else is an ability to listen with the heart. When we learn to listen deeply to...