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...
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Reflections from our teachers
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,...
Embracing Uncertainty; Practice During Crisis
Since this pandemic began many clients have contacted me, reporting feeling either depressed and shut down, or in a state of panic, or quiet desperation. Although it is normal to feel difficult emotions during...
Cultivating Joy and Responsibility in Extraordinary Times
Your welfare and my welfare are undeniably interlinked.How we treat ourselves and how we treat our world are one and the same. Despite a cognitive understanding of interconnection, the mind of separation can draw...
From Freeze to Flow: Transforming Your Fear in the Midst of Pandemic
The past few weeks I’ve been making fun of people who are buying up all the toilet paper. Hoarders, I thought to myself smugly, remembering the Buddha’s teachings on the dangers of greed. “We...