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...
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Forgiveness Repairs the World
Buddhist psychology offers specific teachings and practices for the development of forgiveness. Like the practice of compassion, forgiveness does not ignore the truth of our...
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...
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,...
Practice: Meeting Difficulty with Wise Intention
Pick a situation of difficulty or conflict with others. Reflect on your last encounters and on the motivation from which you operated. How did this...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 30 – Joys of The Awakened Heart
In meditation and in our spiritual life there grows a kind of trust in our capacity to open, to change, and to transform no matter...
Malleability and Insight: The Fruits of Concentration
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...
Practice: Don’t Know Mind
Use this practice to bring wisdom to a situation of inner or outer conflict. Initially begin by sitting. Later you can practice in social...
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...
Vast Silence and Illumination
Jhana states are two sets of stable states of absorption concentration and insight concentration outlined in Buddhist psychology. These states are so central to the...
Obstacles Are Part of the Path
When we examine our own minds we will inevitably encounter the root forces of greed, fear, prejudice, hatred, and desire, which create so much sorrow...