Dear Friends: You need the heart of a lion to rest in a culture that never rests. You need to be so brave and so ferocious in keeping your own self in harmony that even if somebody tries to stop you, you just put your head up, show them those massive teeth, and just think, […]

Dear Friends: Meditating on Difficult Emotions If you have feelings of grief or self-criticism that arise during meditation, rather than treat them as an obstacle, welcome them in and make them the object of your meditation until they naturally melt away. – Mindy Newman, “Embodying the Healing Mother” Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here […]

Dear Friends: “May we all be deeply devoted to the flourishing of life, in all its dimensions.” – Martin Aylward, Sangha Live Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Anniversary eBook and Guided Meditation Bundle <!

Dear Friends: The practice of deep, compassionate listening is crucial. If you don’t have compassion, you cannot listen, because what the other person is saying may water the seeds of irritation and anger in you, and you may lose the compassion you have and no longer be able to listen. If you know how to […]

Dear Friends: Spiritually speaking, guilt negates divinity completely. If we cling to being the someone who is inherently flawed and, therefore, capable of and guilty of a multitude of sins, we will remain forever incapable of recognizing True Nature in the face of Mara’s arrows of judgment and condemnation of our being and behavior. – […]

Dear Friends: Be With Your Body When we are exactly where our body is, we are in the present moment. The body isn’t in the past or future, it’s not conceptual or imagined; it’s part of nature and contains all of nature’s elements. – Jill Satterfield, “Meditation in Motion” Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click […]

Dear Friends: The essence of Dzogchen is wonderment – openness and awareness, a radiant path of awakening. – Lama Surya Das, Dzogchen Center Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Anniversary eBook and Guided Meditation Bundle <!

Dear Friends: When our heart breaks

Dear Friends: Sit with the Mess We have to sit with our resistance to feeling whole, to feeling all those painful and messy parts of ourselves. – Barry Magid, Five Practices to Change Your Mind Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! Anniversary eBook and […]

Dear Friends: Immanent and Transcendent ( . . . ) the word the Buddha used to refer to himself (is) “Tathagata.” The Buddha coined this word, and it’s made up of two different parts. The first part, “tatha,” means “such” or “thus”; and the second part, “agata,” means “come.” Meanwhile the word “gata” means “gone.” […]