Audio: Vastness and Love Dharma Talk
With a spacious heart, we can remember the bigger picture. What would it feel like to love the whole kit and caboodle—to make our love...
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“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...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 45 – Stories from an Awakened Heart
Jack offers tales of tenderness that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which move us in the direction of freedom. What resources...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 44 – Attachment Revealed
To create and maintain appropriate boundaries we must first understand what it is as we are approaching attachment, commitment and love. Jack offers a definition...
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...
Healthy Desire
Buddhist psychology teaches us to distinguish between the painful desire of addiction and driven ambition and the healthy energies of dedication and commitment. A dream...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 39 – Emptiness and the Power of Love
An exploration of the ways in which the quiet mind and open heart lead to wisdom, depth, and love. Our practice itself is an act...
The Path Is Not Linear but Circular and Continuous
Systematic depictions of spiritual stages can make it seem as if the path is simple, linear, and progressive, as if spiritual life were a step-by-step...
Practice: Seeing from the Universal Perspective
Buddhist psychology is filled with practices that shift us to the universal perspective. These include contemplations on the vastness of time, the cycles of impermanence,...
Redemption and Forgiveness
“No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.” ~Meister Eckhart Milarepa, the most famous saint in...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 31 – Loving Kindness
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...
