Audio: A Mind Like Sky Meditation
Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small...
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Audio: Meditation on Equanimity
Equanimity is a wonderful quality, a spaciousness and balance of heart. Although it grows naturally with our meditation practice, equanimity can also be cultivated in...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 61 – Letting Go
Letting go of our attachment and desire for control opens us to the vastness that this incarnation has to offer. How do we go about...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 60 – Vastness and Love
Explore the three-fold training in Buddhism which shows us the vastness and love within when we quiet ourselves. “When you live with integrity, when you...
Love Beyond Expectations
Romantic love can deepen when we let it. At first it is a kind of idol worship. It can come with idealism, possessiveness, jealousy, and...
Lover of the Moment
In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I...
Accepting One’s Quirky Personality
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell Looking closely at personality and temperament is...
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 51 – Identity and Freedom
Jack delivers a talk on how identity leads us to suffer and shares the Buddha’s path towards freedom from that suffering. The Buddha’s teachings are...
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...
Practice: Turning Toward Our Essence
“Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in...
Turning Toward Our Essence (Part Two)
Read Part One: Turning Toward Our Essence As we have seen, when we turn to investigate who is being aware we may feel confused, like a...
Turning Toward Our Essence (Part One)
“Who are we, really?” the Zen koans demand, “Who is dragging this body around?” or “What was your original face before your parents were born?”...
