Dear Friend, You might’ve heard about our new Sangha Live community platform, for Dharma sharing & socializing in between our meditation sits. Maybe you’ve created a profile… joined a few spaces… shared a beautiful...
We all long to be happy. Not happy as in glee but deep contentment. We all long to feel at ease, to know that we’re okay, that life is okay, to be at peace....
Pride celebrations, which largely occur during the months of June, July, and August, are dedicated to celebrating the freedoms we have as LGBTQIA2S+ people and for campaigning for the human rights of Queer and...
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...
There is a subtle, deep and invisible toll to this pandemic, another kind of loss of life: the loss of our embodied social life, the fractures in our circles of belonging. These fractures can be...
The Buddha often described practice in terms of the metaphor “untangling the tangles”. Some of the tangles we create include: Habitual patterns which cause you stress/suffering Identity self-view The tangle of existence MindfulnessTo help...
In an effort to counter tendencies towards striving and over-achieving, many Western approaches to meditation emphasize relaxation, ease and non-doing. When we’ve been trained to override our natural limits, being given permission to relax...
In his book, “Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness”, Buddhist author, Arnie Kozak has a section titled “Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Thoughts”. In it he writes, “This...
“Given the devastating events of the last couple of days, I’m checking in on you… How is your heart? Is there anything I can do to support or love up on you?” This text...
In the spiritual, mindfulness, religious, Buddhist circles, we use the word ‘practice’ with frequency. Practice provides a genuine sense of development, of moving forward, while a fading of practice can give the sense of...
