Many of us find our way to the spiritual path due to experiencing dissatisfaction in our life. Maybe there is long-lasting or severe physical pain and it’s associated hopelessness and frustration. Perhaps life itself...
What is the body, really? Despite living in our body for many years, we may know very little about it from a Dharma perspective. Through Dharma practice, we can learn to see the body...
The 8th Century Indian Buddhist philosopher and monk Shantideva once wrote, “All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the suffering this world contains has come through wanting...
I’m writing this from a remote Indigenous community along the pacific coast of Canada, where I’ve been invited to do some therapeutic work with the first people of this area. It’s a place of...
I live in the lush, dense, dark, temperate rainforest of Western North Carolina. In the spring and summer, when the mountains explode with the green of trees, ferns, herbs, fungus and flowers, my husband...
Western society has a compelling tendency to adapt every issue of life to the needs of the self. Self-compassion. Self-help. Self-acceptance. From a separate self to a connected self. True Self. A spiritual self....
Live in joy. in love,Even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health.Even among the afflicted.Live in joy, in peace,Even among the troubled.Look within. Be still.Free from fear and attachment,Know the sweet joy of...
Desire. It is a provocative word. What sensations, thoughts and feelings arise as you sit with it? Does energy come, or uncertainty? Fear, excitement or numbness? All of us have conditioned ideas and responses...
Mindfulness can be a bridge – one that offers kind awareness long enough to know things as they are, and not just what we might think. Within this deeper knowing we unveil the insidious...
These days meditation is popping up everywhere. In fact, the “business of mindfulness” is quickly becoming a foundation of the multi-trillion dollar wellness industry. In the United States alone, the “meditation industry” is worth...
