Just as we open and heal the body by sensing its rhythms and touching it with a deep and kind attention, so we can open…
Sam sits down with Jack to talk about finding inner peace, getting through dark times, and honoring your cargo.
In 1989, at one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings, we Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame…
We all face praise and blame, joy and sorrow, gain and loss. To have compassion for your human vulnerability is a blessed, tender practice. Poet…
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not. Suffering arises from grasping. Release grasping and be free of suffering. Anyone who has had even the briefest introduction…
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question…
Without mindfulness, we exist in the cycle of living known as samsara. We examine how the different levels of mindfulness practice allow us to shed…
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…
We all need healing at different times in our lives. Sometimes we need healing for physical illness. At other times, we need to heal the…
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…
