It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...

How to work with grasping - in the moment Whilst theory can be helpful, the beauty of these teachings is that they are meant to be...

Dear friends, There’s uplift in my heart as I write to you, it has been a while! I’ve returned from a period of personal retreat where...

One of the great teachings in spiritual life is this: It doesn’t matter what is happening.  What matters is how we respond. How we...

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...

One way to support less phone use is using a grayscale filter to eliminate the visual attraction of colors. The brain is naturally drawn...

Based on the teachings of Chris Germer (founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion programme): 3 key paradoxes that we understand when we...

When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry...

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...

The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace...

"This listening to ourselves is what we want to be doing everyday – how am I doing, what's happening in my mind, my body, my feelings....

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other...

Though we find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky of autumn, how can that compare with the hazy moon on a spring night? Some...

The Five Mindfulness Trainings The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are...

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. by Izumi Shikibu (Original Language...

Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too...

In the evolution of mindfulness, the fusion of ancient Buddhist roots with a contemporary approach has been a transformative journey....

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...

Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself, rather do it as an act of love of deep warm...