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 […]

Dear Friends: Stop Worrying One of the approaches that I personally find useful is to cultivate the thought: If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. In other words, if there is a solution or a way out of the difficulty, you […]

Dear Friends: The more we cultivate a mind wishing to benefit other sentient beings, the greater will be the peace and happiness within ourselves. If we have inner peace ourselves, we will be better able to contribute to the peace and happiness of others. – Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Tibet House […]

Dear Friends: Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. – Jack Kerouac, Daily Peace Quote 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: How to Practice Embodied Mindfulness Mind and body aren’t really separate. Whether you are talking, writing, planning, or worrying, you are still in your body. And when you are biking, sleeping, or walking the dog, your thoughts still come and go. – Cyndi Lee, Lion’s Roar Read More Words of Wisdom Click here […]