Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compas….

At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I ….

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest….

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) e….

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted..

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is our….

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts..

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can ….

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be..

It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moraliz….

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are..

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, ….

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear mo….

The future is the result of what we do right now..

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That….

One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute,….

Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even diff….

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suff….

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them….

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared..