“All beings are responsible for their own actions. Suffering or happiness is created through one’s relationship to experience, not by experience itself. The freedom and happiness of others is dependent on their actions, not on my wishes for them.” – Equanimity Meditation
Read MoreThe PMA, right? Positive mental attitude. It’s a practice.
Read MoreGiving does not have to be material or financial; in fact, it doesn’t have to cost anything at all.
Read MoreKindness is the solution.
Read MoreThis living being, right here, is the one that you have most influence over, your own body, heart, mind.
Read MoreOne core aspect of the heart is love. Love is experienced on several different levels. There is the personal love that we feel for our relatives and friends. There is the romantic love we experience in our sexually intimate relationships. Lastly, and most important to our heart’s freedom, is universal love (or unconditional loving-kindness).
Read MoreThe experience of forgiveness is a momentary release. In reality, we don’t (and can’t) forgive forever, only for that present moment. This is both good and bad news.
Read MoreHow many of us have lived the life of constantly trying to avoid, replace, ignore and postpone anything that feels difficult, that stinks, that is boring, or is unpleasant?
Read MoreThe definition of mercy is to not cause harm in a situation where we have the power to cause harm.
Read MoreThe path of liberating the heart, of dharma practice, has been likened to a long and arduous trek through an unknown wilderness.
Read MoreCultivate the good. Cultivating the good means uncovering, recovering the wisdom and compassion that are present as potential in all of us.
Read MoreHow we behave matters.
Read MoreThere is a way to navigate this human-ness this being-ness without suffering about it, without taking it all so seriously, so personally, so gravely.
Read MoreFor the next 3 months, I'm going to use my book, ‘Heart of the Revolution’ as the topic for my Monday night Dharma talk and guided meditation. This book is about loving-kindness and compassion, forgiveness, generosity, equanimity, what we call the ‘brahmaviharas’ or ‘the heart practices’ of Buddhism.
Read MoreThe Buddha had a really really radical proposal for humanity. For all of us. And that is, that all living beings have the power, the potential , he ability to free themselves from suffering through their own actions – through our own efforts – in this lifetime, no matter where you come from, what you've done.
Read MoreThe five precepts are referred to as ‘Sila’; Buddhist ethics to train ourselves to abstain from killing, lying, stealing, sexual misconduct and using intoxicants.
Read MoreDiscussion on: Truth. Self-control. Generosity. Steadfastness. And patience.
Read MoreKeep meditating. Keep coming back. Persevere. Don't give up even though sometimes we feel so hopeless. Keep trying. Develop the mantra, “I love you, keep going”.
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