Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention..

When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of o….

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go….

Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'o….

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall..

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure ….

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation..

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life..

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the sam….

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life..

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking med….

In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible ….

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart..

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf..

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own..

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec….

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.

No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an….

What we seek is what we are..