Integrity – A Bridge Over Troubled Water
In challenging situations, we can lose our ground. Not knowing what to rely on, we are liable to reactivity, either withdrawing or lashing out. When we doubt our ability to meet challenges, to make...
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Natural Wisdom
I’m sitting on the deck, looking across the Salish Sea at the sunset. Pinks, blues, purples, and yellows paint the sky above the mountains of Vancouver Island, while two Willow Flycatchers call back and...
The Power of Change
Change takes place in every single moment. Within the mosaic of body, heart and mind, as well as in the structures of the outer. We can witness change. We can welcome it or refuse...
Being Real Together
I don’t feel to do a Dharma pep talk to make you, or myself, feel comfortable right now. I don’t wish anyone to be uncomfortable either, but the truth is that we’re in the...
A Skilful Dance: The Three Characteristics Of Life and The Winds of Dharma
Most of us are slowly moving out of quarantine; we will encounter various situations along our path. Annica, (Impermanence), Dukha, (Suffering), and Anata, (No-Self) are the Buddha’s next teachings after the Noble Truths. There...
A Global Crisis. The Wisdom of Action while Living with Uncertainty
Dharma means Duty. Karma is volitional activity with its conditions in the past. Karma is dependent on getting what one wants. Duty emerges out of clarity in the present with the willingness to follow...
Not Clinging to Anything in the World
We’ve been living with COVID -19 since early March. People have been asking a lot of questions about how to practice with it. I always respond by asking more questions: How have you been...
Comfortable with Discomfort: How to be a Bodhisattva
For many people I’ve spoken with this past week, restlessness, agitation and discomfort have been at an all time high. Maybe it’s that the novelty of staying at home has worn off. Or the...
Pause, Listen, and Settle into the Stillness of Inquiry
Caverly Morgan is a long-term friend of Sangha Live. She has recently been offering teachings and meditations every day to the community, along with Martin Aylward and Kaira Jewel Lingo. One of her students...
The Procurement of Kindness and Sanity
As I check into my own body, heart and mind I know I am tapping into a larger inner world than just my own. As each of us ventures into our own individual minds,...