Since Thay’s transition, our young monastic community has had to grow into our role with a lot of responsibility and expectations. We are on a continual learning journey of putting into practice Thay’s teaching for us to be an organism—not an institution— and to make decisions by consensus. He didn’t want us to become an […]

Humans were the last to be created. We are the youngest. We must learn from our Elders, watching, looking and listening to all those created before us. – Pat McCabe Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Bay Area Meditators May you be free from […]

“You cannot stop your life, you know. You are always changing into something else. Always.Incessantly.” – Suzuki Roshi Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! I Am With You May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best, –Jerome Set […]

“The choices we make daily make us who we are. As today opens in front of you, choose compassion.” – Hersch Wilson, Dzogchen Center Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! May you be free from suffering and […]

Clash of Values Buddhism has its own orienting perspectives, attitudes, and values, as does American corporate culture. And not only are they very different from each other, they are also often fundamentally opposed to each other. – Curtis White, ” The Science Delusion “ Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you […]

Making Friends with Ourselves Meditation is making friends with yourself. How many of us can truly say we are our own best friend? I know I mentioned in the introduction that meditation alone is not enough to undo the conditioning that has been perpetuated by systems of injustice. It’s also true that meditation can be […]

Awakening from Without “One is not capable of achieving one’s salvation by one’s own conscious effort. In fact, it is the very realization that one is so incapable that leads to the transformation that constitutes real Buddhist wisdom: namely, the awakening to non-self.” – David Brazier, “Other-Power” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to […]

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is […]

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here. – Wendell Berry Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Mindfulness Personal Training – Sustaining May you be free from suffering […]