“In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed…
Pain is not wrong
“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is…
We are all broken
“I’ve come to believe that we we’re all broken from the same nameless heart, and every living thing wakes with…
How to live fully
“Subconsciously we are lured by the expectation that we will reach a stage where we don’t have to fix anything…
We become our own monastery
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space…
The power of an open question
If we think about it, life resists definition. How can we truly know things that continuously change, are impossible to…
We manage to hope
In silence lies truth of who you are
When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is…
World plays a role in our liberation
“Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self…
The Invitation
“You cannot trade the courage needed to live every moment for immunity from life’s sorrows. We may say we know…
Out of control everyday mind
“At my first meditation retreat, a two-week period of silent attention to mind and body, I was amazed to find…
Falling Into Grace
“I remember hearing a talk from a very famous Tibetan teacher, a man who had spent many years in a…
The trance of unworthiness
We focus on other people’s faults. There is a saying that the world is divided into people who think they…
Freedom is right here
What are the experiences that the teachings of the Buddha are founded on? They are sadness, love, and openness. Although…
Awareness is the key
Siddhartha was also trying to cut suffering at its root. But he was not dreaming up solutions such as starting…
Do nothing
The method that the Buddha discovered is meditation. He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was…
Opening the Door of Your Heart
SEVERAL CENTURIES AGO, seven monks were in a cave in a jungle somewhere in Asia, meditating on the type of…
“In-the-body experience”
You may have heard of “out-of-the-body experiences,” full of lights , and visions. A true spiritual path demands something more…
Touching all things with compassion
As we allow the world to touch us deeply, we recognize that just as there is pain in our own…
Analysing our experiences
When we analyze our experience, we have ideas of time or space, big or small, heavy or light. A scale…
