Dear Friends: Most of us are feeling the atmosphere of fear and animosity surrounding the U.S. elections and, more broadly, the distress about the violence and natural disasters playing out globally. It’s intelligent to feel fear. We need to actively engage and respond to the very real and immediate dangers of these times. And, our […]

Dear Friends: Sujata’s Gift With or without a thousand cows, auspicious signs, and golden bowls, Sujata’s meal is recognizable. It’s the soothingly sweet kheer that we order at Indian restaurants after a satisfying, spicy meal. It’s the rice pudding that many of us longed for as a simple but comforting childhood treat. It’s the arroz […]

Dear Friends: Only emptiness can give you more. Any other kind of “more” becomes less, intensifying your dissatisfaction and cluttering your beingness. – Mooji Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! <!

Dear Friends: The Science of Meditation: What We Know (And What We Don’t) The science behind mindfulness meditation has often suffered from poor study designs, lack of funding, and small effect sizes. As a result, there is still a lot we don’t understand about mindfulness and meditation. – Greater Good Science Center, Lion’s Roar Read […]

Dear Friends: “Right effort directed in the right direction is necessary.If your effort is headed in the wrong direction, especially if you are not aware of this, it is deluded effort.” – Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner”™s Mind Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! […]

Dear Friends: “We have the power to decide the destiny of our planet. If we awaken to our true situation, there will be a change in our collective consciousness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How […]

Dear Friends: In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. – Brother David Steindl-Rast Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! <!

Dear Friends: Cultivating Appreciative Joy Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis upon which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on appreciative joy, for when you develop meditation on appreciative joy, any discontent will be abandoned. (MN 62) The function of appreciative […]

Dear Friends: Embodying the Bodhisattva It’s not enough just to know the definition of bodhisattva. What’s much more important is to study the actions of a bodhisattva and then to behave like one yourself. – Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, The Bodhisattva Vow: Eight Views Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can […]

Dear Friends: Noticing Your Reactions When Buddhist teachings talk about emotions, such as love and hate, they are describing our disposition toward the things we encounter. – Andrew Olendzki, “What”™s in a Word? Dukkha” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness […]