Heart Wisdom – Ep. 38 – Dark Matters with Duncan Trussell & Dustin Marshall

Jack sits down with fellow podcast patrons, Duncan Trussell and Dustin Marshall, for an in-depth discussion about navigating some of the darkest corners of the...

Video: Seeing Anew

Balancing What is Reactive

What is it that is reactive? Our minds are reactive: liking and disliking, judging and comparing, clinging and condemning. Our minds are like a balance scale, and...

Video: Inner Strength and Kindness: Practices for a Wise Life

Practice: Recognizing Our Mind States

You can begin to study the effects of the states of mind that fill your days.  To start, it helps to become deliberately aware of...

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...

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...

Difficulties and Hindrances

The Buddhist tradition speaks directly about the hindrances that are encountered in the course of the spiritual journey. Buddha said that those who conquer their...

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...

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...

The Storytelling Mind (Part Two)

(Read Part One of The Storytelling Mind) When we look at the constant and repetitive process of our own thinking, we see how habitually it...

The Storytelling Mind

  When I first took robes and entered the monastic community of Ajahn Chah, I had already been practicing meditation for two years. Now, sitting...