The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together
We all long to be happy. Not happy as in glee but deep contentment. We forget that this experience we long for is already seated in the heart of who we are—and that it’s...
Pride Every Day of The Year
As Buddhists we are committed to cultivating compassion to all sentient beings. We must remember wherever we are on the sexuality or gender spectrum we are part of Indra's net, we are all interconnected.
Wise Approaches to Working with Anticipatory Stress and Fear
Recently my husband and I visited the desert southwest to visit Ancient Puebloan sites. Despite choosing early June to beat the summer heat, a massive heat wave had already blanketed the region as climate...
From Longing to Belonging
We might not think longing can be a dharma practice. Longing is the first step to belonging, the call of the soul to be connected. From there begins the weaving of ties that hold...
Untangling the Tangle: Break Patterns with Mindfulness
The Buddha often described practice in terms of the metaphor “untangling the tangles”. To help you uncover some of your tangles, bring mindful curiosity to the places in your life where you feel stuck...
Balancing Relaxation with Inner Strength
Just as we can train for a race or grow skill in an instrument, we can develop an inner strength of mind that allows us to commit fully to what we value without straining....
A Pathway to Freedom Through Connecting with the Body
Connecting with the physical sensations of the body, including the activity of breathing, provides a clarifying contrast to the activity of thinking. Anchoring awareness in the body can set up a more balanced relationship...
Radical Friendship: Practicing Freedom in Unfree Places
Small gestures of radical friendship – a call, a text – are mindfulness practices too. They remind us that love is still here, that our humanity is still alive, and that these things are...
What is the ultimate truth? What is the relative truth?
Ultimate truth confirms a liberating truth, an awakening truth. Views differ from truth since views belong to the healthy, unhealthy or neither. Truth reveals discovery not tied to such human perceptions. Can we discover...
Cultivating Equanimity in Daily Life
Cultivating equanimity is a great resource for us in formal practice, as well as in how we meet the day to day unfolding of our lives. Without equanimity, we are like a ship battered...