Dear Friends: This is one of the greatest meditations, to accept things as they are. Drop all shoulds and be with what is. Remember life is perfect as it is and to live its suchness is tremendously beautiful, exhilarating, ecstatic. – Osho, Daily Peace Quote Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what […]

Dear Friends: You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe – an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle. – Eckhart Tolle Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can […]

Dear Friends: Under the Skeleton Tree The year I was in the third grade might have been the last year we played dead beneath the Skeleton Tree. It was just before dinner

Dear Friends: Remember the preciousness of this existence, and the fleeting beauty of each experience. Let this awareness permeate your actions, infusing your work and your relationships with mindfulness and compassion. This is the practice of the Dhamma in the everyday. Life’s fragility isn’t a mistake, it isn’t a curse. It’s a poignant reminder to […]

Dear Friends: Challenge Your Standards When judging the results of your own actions, you can’t simply take your own ideas of ‘what works’ as a trustworthy standard. After all, you can easily side with your greed, aversion, or delusion, setting your standards too low. So to check against this tendency, the Buddha recommends that you […]

Dear Friends: Experiential Wisdom Contemplative inquiry is in effect a dialogue between the “I” of the mind and the “me” of the body that attunes us to the body’s deeper knowing, its genuine experiential wisdom. Unlike discursive mind, the body has no way of being anything other than genuine. – David Rome, “Focusing and Meditating […]

Dear Friends: Facing Difficulties Do not become annoyed when faced with difficulties. To do so merely adds difficulty to difficulty and further disturbs your mind. By maintaining a mind of peace and nonopposition, difficulties will naturally fall away. – Master Sheng-yen, “Nonopposition” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for […]

Dear Friends: Separating Awareness It is this capacity to separate awareness from the common reflex of continual judging that can be transformative. – “What’s in a Word? Sati”, “What’s in a Word? Sati” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to […]

Dear Friends: Joy Arises from Simplicity Once we are willing to be directly intimate with our life as it arises, joy emerges out of the simplest of life experiences. – Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, “Simple Joy” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to […]

Dear Friends: Practice with Gentle Persistence Refinement of attention is only achieved through a gentle and persistent letting go; it is never attained by the brute force of sheer willpower. – Ajahn Brahm, “Stepping Towards Enlightenment” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to […]