The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The t….

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality..

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the jou….

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it..

Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation o….

Things become clear when there is no escape..

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating ….

What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing of….

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of ….

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing..

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simp….

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already..

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go..

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand..

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middl….

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rath….

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are..

The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand ….

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's rai….

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment..