Reflecting on the election, Jack explores how we can most mindfully and lovingly dance with impermanence, suffering, and ‘the great turning’ of the world.
The value of our harshest difficulties is how honestly they cause us to question, how they intensify our courage and bring alive our deepest inner...
If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? There is an unquenchable human spirit born anew in each...
For this episode, we went back into the archives to just a few weeks after the events of 9/11 for a lesson on how we...
As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the explorer, bravely facing danger. In the Buddhist understanding, however,...
People often prefer a very limited, punishing regime—rather than face the anxiety of freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Along with the joy of freedom is a...
“Ultimately it is on our vulnerability that we depend.”—Rilke As children, many of us were taught courage in the form of the warrior or the...
The opposite of aggression is not passivity, it is true strength. When we have lost a sense of our innate nobility,we mistakenly believe in our...
You are part of the web of life, so you don’t need to hold on so tightly. Ultimately, who you are is awareness itself. No...
I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is...
Restraint serves as a counterbalance to the addictive tendencies of mind. There is a story in the Buddhist texts of a monkey living happily and...
“In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and
eternal law.”—Buddha
