We Journey from Birth onto Death. Does Life Offer Something More?

Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts. Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.

Saying yes to life can allow us to be freed from the conditioned loop of seeking and resisting. It can spark remembrance of what’s most fundamental: awareness itself. 

Equanimity, or upekkha, is the last of the four Brahma Viharas or heart practices. It holds the other three—loving-kindness, compassion, and joy—with a spacious awareness that allows us to experience whatever is here with...

Many of us have also discovered that our practice is bearing witness and being intimate with exactly where we are and where the world is, tough though this can be. We must stay the...