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...
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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...
Beyond the Self: Researching Experiences of The Limitless
In this research the meditation was directed specifically to explore themes related to the self, boundary and limits, on the one hand and beyond the self and boundaries, and limitlessness on the other.
Exploring Groundlessness and Freedom in Times of Uncertainty
Right now, holding certainty about many aspects of life is impossible. Together we explore how our practice can support us when not knowing feels groundless and how we can find freedom even when the...
We Journey from Birth onto Death. Does Life Offer Something More?
Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts. Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.
Saying YES to Life
Saying yes to life can allow us to be freed from the conditioned loop of seeking and resisting. It can spark remembrance of what’s most fundamental: awareness itself.
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Difficult Times
Equanimity, or upekkha, is the last of the four Brahma Viharas or heart practices. It holds the other three—loving-kindness, compassion, and joy—with a spacious awareness that allows us to experience whatever is here with...
This Year of Living the Pandemic
Many of us have also discovered that our practice is bearing witness and being intimate with exactly where we are and where the world is, tough though this can be. We must stay the...
Trauma-Sensitive Meditation: Using an Anchor
One of the frameworks that's helpful in these cases is trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice. Trauma-sensitive, or trauma-informed, mindfulness means that we have a basic understanding of trauma in the context of our practice. We can learn how...