How often does that thought arise in your life? Whether it's about potato chips or thinking,
“I'm just gonna …or… I've already kind of contemplated this 3700 times but I'm going to go over it one more time before I get to sleep. Let me just think about this a little bit more.”
All of the Buddha's teachings came out of conversations he was having with people.
Read MoreEffort & Wise Interventions
Read MoreHow much conflict and extra - unnecessary - suffering we get into by clinging so tightly to being “right”.
Read MoreIn order to actually make some progress, experience freedom, we have to be incredibly intentional - and that's what I want to talk about tonight.
Read MoreJune 7th, 30-minute guided mediation followed by a dharma talk.
Read MoreI think a lot of people are sort of wired to think, “whatever I think, that's the truth. I'm just certain about my views and opinions and attitudes and outlooks. They’re right, and if you don't think this way, you're wrong. I'm for sure right and everybody else is unfortunately confused.”
Read MoreThere’s a line between defending, the stopping of harm to yourself when you can then say, “I’m safe again”… and “I'm safe again and I'm hurt and now I want to hurt you.”
Read MoreI love that the first Noble truth just normalizes our suffering. We're in this culture where suffering is thought of as a failure.
Read MoreYou have the capacity to awaken in this lifetime.
Read MoreFrom a Buddhist perspective, we all have a personality type—one of three kinds.
Read MoreIs this heaven or is this hell? In Buddhist cosmology it is taught that there are six different realms into which we can be born. Only two of the six—the human and animal realms—are visible to the human eye.
Read MoreAll of the Brahma Vihara practices and tonglen have the ability to initiate the process of dissolving the armoring of the heart.
Read More“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.
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