To work with Buddhism’s Five Hindrances—desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt—we must actually study them, observing and allowing them to be incorporated into our meditation...
This week, Jack joins Michael Krasny for a conversation diving into mindfulness, loneliness, compassion, gratitude, suffering, meditation, and the Dharma. “With mindfulness you learn to...
Rest in the reality of the present with mindful, loving awareness. Sit like a Buddha, steady and kind, with heart open, gracious and wise in...
Let yourself settle here on the Earth. Feel how the Earth can completely support you. You can let go. Let the heart be soft to...
Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame,...
Notice as you feel the breath, that who you are is not this breath, or this body, but you are loving awareness, the loving witness.
In this podcast, we explore how we can traverse the tumultuous polarities of life from the mindful and freeing perspective of the loving witness.
Gently acknowledge any strong waves of thought or emotion that pull you away from the breath. Let them rise and fall, then return to breath....
You are consciousness itself—open, spacious, letting the breath breathe itself. Notice how emotions, feelings and thoughts rise and fall like the waves of the ocean;...
In any moment you can become the loving witness—it’s why we sit in meditation. We learn to sit with both heartbreak and love—with whatever arises....
Feelings are ever-present. They are a mysterious and rich dimension of our human life. But without mindfulness of them we can react automatically, habitually clinging...
To recite the intention of reconciliation is to willingly plant a seed of reconnection and love in our heart. As we repeat each phrase, we...
