The Virtue of Courage

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. – Maya Angelou

Pulled By Our Own Attachments

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a popular Sri Lankan Buddhist monks in the Theravadan tradition. He offers these words of wisdom today to show how we are pulled by our own attachments. These words of wisdom appeared in the Tricycle Daily Dharma last month. Our attachments these days are many and mostly quite useless in the […]

Embracing Anger

These words of wisdom from Mark Epstein in Tricycle Daily Dharma teach us about sitting with anger, or, as Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) teaches, embracing anger. Can you imagine a more explosive situation than what is going on in Israel today? With the recent war in Gaza started by Hamas with their bombing […]

Guided Meditation to Create Your Inner Sanctuary

This guided meditation to create your inner sanctuary is provided by The Honest Guys, Sian Lloyd-Pennell, Rick Clarke, and their producer, Kevin. My first experience with creating my inner sanctuary was when I took the Silva Mind Control course in Chicago in 1971. I believe it was called creating your inner sanctuary. I think it […]

Why You Should Meditate – Pema Chodron

These words of wisdom are from Pema Chodron. She teaches you why you should meditate. She tells us that we are not meditating to become good meditators. We are meditating to become more alive, more aware, more awake. Daily practice is the key to establishing a good meditation practice. It can be as little as […]

26 Lessons from Mahatma Gandhi

These 26 lessons from Mahatma Gandhi are for you to contemplate and investigate in your lives. The come from the Purpose Ferry, Luminita Saviuc. Luminita is a former employee of Mindvalley who has achieved an enormous degree of success on her own. She is a gifted writer and speaker from Romania. On her blog, she […]

Five Steps Toward A Better Life – Purpose Fairy

Five Steps Toward A Better Life – Purpose Fairy.

Let Go of Scarcity and Fear by Cultivating Joy and Gratitude

In this video, we learn to let go of scarcity and fear by cultivating joy and gratitude. It is another segment from Super Soul Sunday in which Oprah Winfrey interviews Dr. Brené Brown. Dr. Brown says, “When we lose our tolerance to be vulnerable, joy becomes foreboding, and so what we do in moments of […]

Gratitude as a Daily Practice

I first met Zenju Earthlyn Manuel at an event sponsored by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship around 2006 or 2007. I was impressed with her lovely demeanor, and want to get to know here better. She is no longer the director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and I keep encountering writings from her from time to […]

The Four Immeasurable Minds

The four immeasurable minds are some of my favorite insights that have come from the Buddha. What are the four immeasurable minds? They are loving kindnesss, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. I can remember a time when I had muscle invasive bladder cancer for the first time in 1997. I was watching my daughter, Rachael, […]