“Crossing the river of change requires that you leave the same familiar predictable self—connected to the same thoughts, same choices, same behaviors, and same feelings—and step into a void of the unknown. The gap between the old self and the new self is the biological death of your old personality. If the old self must […]

Facing Impermanence Change is continuous in spite of our efforts to resist it. We begin to realize that we do not have any way to stop it or to slow it down. The more we try, the more we suffer. But there is a way to let go, to break this cycle of suffering. We […]

More than Bare Attention When mindfulness is equated with bare attention, it can easily lead to the misconception that the cultivation of mindfulness has nothing to do with ethics or with the cultivation of wholesome states of mind and the attenuation of unwholesome states. Nothing could be further from the truth. – B. Alan Wallace, […]

We are learning to pay attention—period. Walking, sitting, typing, driving, cooking, listening, and speaking are all becoming fully HERE, no distractions, activities. Every moment is a fully present, completely HERE, no distractions “activity.” Soon you’ll realize it doesn’t take tense muscles to do anything. Soon you’ll see that awareness contains everything, and that as you […]

Light Gives Forth Light When we share our light with others, we do not diminish our own light. Rather, we increase the amount of light available to all. Therefore, when others light our candle, we issue forth light. When out of gratitude we use our candle to light other people’s candles, the whole room gets […]