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!
Challenging moments can provide insight and help us cultivate compassion. Or, they can trigger us to act on aversion, craving, and delusion. If we can note what’s arising, we always have a choice.
The story of the Buddha’s awakening and how the veil metaphor fits in.
One of my students said that the least interesting thing to her in the study of Buddhism is enlightenment. ‘That’s
We have been on an imaginary pilgrimage to the places where the Buddha was born and became enlightened. Our pilgrimage
We are on a four-week imaginary pilgrimage to the places where the Buddha was born, became enlightened, embarked on teaching