How Buddhist Monks Celebrate Christmas
One December, the Western monks at my Thai teacher Ajahn Chah’s Western forest monastery decided to put up a Christmas tree. The villagers who built...
One December, the Western monks at my Thai teacher Ajahn Chah’s Western forest monastery decided to put up a Christmas tree. The villagers who built...
In this cozy holiday special, Jack sheds seasonal tidings on how to rediscover the secret beauty within you and share your special gifts with the...
In this classic lecture, Jack shares stories opening us to the medicine of the Dharma.
Sometimes we need a timeless story to help us begin to live from an expanded perspective.
Jack returns for an illuminating Dharma Talk exploring the deep human longing for the wedding of body and spirit. “The invitation of spiritual life, of...
Sometimes you need a story more than food. Sometimes to hear a story and sometimes to tell it. We all carry personal stories we long...
We have the capacity to see this world in an illuminated way, and yet we do not see the mystery and magic of it. There...
Jack’s timeless wisdom leads the way as he responds to a handful of questions concerning some of the common struggles encountered on the human plane....
(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...
When I first took robes and entered the monastic community of Ajahn Chah, I had already been practicing meditation for two years. Now, sitting...
It is a great relief to discover that our stories do not fully define who we are, or what is happening to us. One practitioner...
Contemplating the perfections of the Buddha (such as generosity, morality, concentration, loving-kindness, and wisdom) and investigating the ways in which he developed these qualities may...