Love

Tending the Garden

When we are willing to rest with trust on this earth, the great force of life will begin to move through us. I saw this...

Video: Bill Ford and Jack Kornfield @ Wisdom 2.0

Cultivating Grace and Transforming Suffering

How do we transform suffering into grace? How do we cultivate a process that allows grace to fill our lives? How do we turn anger...

Freedom Here and Now

The radiant abodes express the fruit of mental development. When they are in balance, loving-kindness, compassion, and joy rest in an unshakable equanimity. This peace...

The Heart’s Intention

Becoming aware of intention is the key to awakening in moment-to-moment practice. In each situation that calls for our engagement, some inner intention will precede...

Rumi’s Teacher

The great Persian poet Rumi had an extraordinary teacher named Shams. Even as a child Shams seemed different. His own parents struggled with whether to...

Cultivating Compassion

There are many levels on which we can strengthen and awaken compassion in our lives. We can practice it in silence as we sit. When...

A Meditation on Lovingkindness

This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others. With each recitation of the phrases, we are...

Forgiveness & Kind Intention

  In the mandala of wholeness we are called to the practice of forgiveness. We must especially find a forgiving heart with family and those close...

Immediacy

Spiritual Awakening is found in the here and now. In the Zen tradition they say, “After the ecstasy, the laundry.” Spiritual maturity manifests itself in...

The Mind and the Heart

The “Jewel in the Lotus” is the translation of the universal compassion mantra “Om Mani Padme Hum.” While it has many meanings, one explanation of...

The Monks & The River

Once two Tibetan monks traveling on pilgrimage came to a rushing river. There they saw an ugly old leper woman sitting on the bank, begging...