Ingrained in most modern cultures is the idea that progress is about speed and growth. This mindset of “more, better, faster” can have a negative…
After more than 40 years teaching mindfulness and compassion to thousands on the spiritual path, the most important message I can offer is this: You…
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…
Jack offers tales of tenderness that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which move us in the direction of freedom. What resources…
Patience has a certain impatience built into it. In Zen the word is “constancy.” Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what…
The Buddha’s teachings point to a non-contentious heart. “There is gain and loss, slander and honor, praise and blame, pleasure and pain; the awakened ones…
In meditation and in our spiritual life there grows a kind of trust in our capacity to open, to change, and to transform no matter…
Victor Frankel, the concentration camp survivor, was also the founder of logotherapy. He discovered that most of those who survived the camps did so only…
Mudita is the joy and happiness experienced for oneself and others. This joy is born into everyone, but is not limited to the innocence afforded…
When we are willing to rest with trust on this earth, the great force of life will begin to move through us. I saw this…
