Coming home to the Four Brahmaviharas
True kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our natural state if we can untangle our attention from the thick blinding veils!
At the center of your being, you have the answer. – Lao Tzu
True kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our natural state if we can untangle our attention from the thick blinding veils!
We all ride the worldly winds of life, but are we flailing, falling or flapping our wings more than we
(Following up on a comment on the last post.)Empathy is inherent to brain development. From a very young age most
Last week I shared the experience of receiving difficult news, and the challenges of meditating with ‘the elephant in the
In our continuing exploration of the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness of the breath, we now come to
Continuing with our focus on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness… Imagine ‘pleasant’ ‘unpleasant and ‘neutral’ as seeds scattered in the garden
Last week we discussed the Second Foundation of Mindfulness and in class we practiced noting whether a current experience was
At the beginning of each dharma talk, after our meditation (so we are all primed to receive insight and wisdom,)
We’ve seen how holding tight to our established identity creates contraction as we grasp and cling to that hard rock