Audio: Love Dharma Talk
When you meditate, the game is to sit and let the mind quiet, tend the heart, and begin to listen to life itself. The question...
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Right Understanding
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question...
Choose Love
We all want to love and be loved. Love is the natural order, the main attraction, the mover of nations, the bees in spring, the...
Service Is the Expression of the Awakened Heart
Years ago Ram Dass went to his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, to ask, “How can I best be enlightened?” His guru answered, “Love people.” When...
Meditation On Lovingkindness
May I be filled with lovingkindness “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.” – Walt...
Awaken the Buddha Within
The karmic patterns that we create through our hearts transcend the limitations of time and space. To awaken the heart of compassion and wisdom 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...
Natural Joy (Part Two)
(Read Part One: Natural Joy) When I returned to the United States and began to teach, my colleagues and I tended to emphasize the...
Optimal Mental Health
“With wisdom let your mind full of love pervade one quarter of the world, and so to the second, third and fourth quarter. Fill the...
Vast Silence and Illumination (Part Two)
(Read Part One: Vast Silence and Illumination) Buddhist psychology offers a systematic training to open the mystical perspective by explaining how to develop states of...
The Four Radiant Abodes
The most treasured description of optimal mental health is the Four Radiant Abodes. These four radiant abodes are: loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity or peace....
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...
