Dear Friends: Even when you’re dealing with a nasty, non-communicative person, stating your position may be a powerful step in your own development. It may not make the slightest impression on your unrelenting foes, but hearing the truth spoken in your own voice can clear your head and buoy your heart, at which point you’ll […]

Dear Friends: Those who say religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either. – Mahatma Gandhi 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: There are fine lights and shades in one�s life which cannot be perceived and understood fully without having touched the deeper side of life, which is the devotional side. – Fariduddin Attar, Daily Peace Quote Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How […]

Dear Friends: This is one of the greatest meditations, to accept things as they are. Drop all shoulds and be with what is. Remember life is perfect as it is and to live its suchness is tremendously beautiful, exhilarating, ecstatic. – Osho, Daily Peace Quote Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what […]

Dear Friends: You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe – an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle. – Eckhart Tolle Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can […]

Dear Friends: Under the Skeleton Tree The year I was in the third grade might have been the last year we played dead beneath the Skeleton Tree. It was just before dinner

Dear Friends: Remember the preciousness of this existence, and the fleeting beauty of each experience. Let this awareness permeate your actions, infusing your work and your relationships with mindfulness and compassion. This is the practice of the Dhamma in the everyday. Life’s fragility isn’t a mistake, it isn’t a curse. It’s a poignant reminder to […]

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 […]