Dear Friends: Just Experience What Arises There is an exquisite quality that comes from just experiencing what arises, completely, with no separation between awareness and experience. – Ken McLeod, “Forget Happiness” 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: Just Do Less The more we try to make life conform to our desires, the more we struggle, and the more we suffer. The only way out of this vicious cycle is to accept what arises, completely: in other words, do nothing. – Ken McLeod, “Something from Nothing “ Read More Mini Mindfulness […]

Dear Friends: These Beautiful Photos Chronicle a Search for Light and Enlightenment Fischer started taking pictures when he was 15. He describes it as “a personal search for light.” Years later, in 2008, he started another search for light

Dear Friends: Every moment offers the possibility to muse on the effortless, easeful and flowy nature of life. Simply noticing that this body knows how to breathe and thoughts form on their own can soothe the mind and bring about relief, balance and peace. – Guillaume Caron, NY Insight Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click […]

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 […]