Seeing Clearly in an Age of Confusion
In the insight tradition, we have the practice of vipassana, sometimes translated as "seeing clearly" or "super seeing". By learning to train our minds, we can more clearly identify what is and is not...
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Focus the Mind with Skillful Distraction
We all need to distract ourselves from our own thoughts at times, but is the distraction you have chosen a skillful one? Does it refresh your attention, restore your confidence, and lead you toward...
Five Things to Do at the Beginning of Meditation
Here are five things you can do at the beginning of a meditation period that may help you get settled and prepare your mind for meditation.
Touching the Earth: Turning the Mind to the Roots
How do we touch our earth? How do we reach out with both trust and humility? One way is a practice called “turning attention to the origin” or yoniso manasikāra . An idiomatic translation...
Turning The Dharma Wheel: “What Am I Doing In Here”
"What Am I Doing In Here" is a practice that connects us with the Buddha’s first talk, which came to be known as “Turning The Dharma Wheel.”
The 5 Buddhist Precepts as Orientation
We can think of precepts as aligning with our deepest intentions, known and unknown. As we practice, our relationship to these goalposts will change, strengthen, and we gain deeper understanding of these vows.
The Paramis of Generosity and Morality: A Movement Towards a Shared World
The cultivation of generosity and morality is about bringing people to mind, developing an intent to share and protect each other. When we hold these two as a value, we begin to get curious...
Protest Practice
I’ve devoted years to cultivating compassion and loving kindness. I’ve experienced the fruits of practice— the love that emerges naturally when my mind is resting in awareness. Yet I wondered, where does the love...
Cultivating Wise Energy
How we use our life energy is an essential choice we make every day. How do we use this precious resource? What habits govern the ways we channel our energy, both intentionally and unintentionally?...
Awareness Shift: Knowing the Nature of the Body, Heart, and Mind
Connecting to inner and outer nature is an aspect of spiritual practice essential to recognizing what is. A treasured shift of awareness can facilitate an emergence from egocentric into ecocentric existence by widening the...