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!
Is there are prickly person in your life? This dharma post will help you to skillfully mend your relationship or let it go.
Whatever’s happening in the world or in our lives, we can greet this moment with clarity and compassion.
Exploring the roots of lovingkindness practice and cultivating a limitless heart.
Are you afraid of aging or is something else involved? A rich exploration into aging well.
When we’re fighting each other, it’s because we can’t see each other as intrinsically interconnected expressions of life. Instead, we focus on our perceived differences and weave threads of assumptions, opinions, projections, stereotypes, etc. into thought veils that blind us.
How do we cope with all that’s happening in the world, taking care of ourselves without turning away?
Before we can offer infinite lovingkindness we need to learn how to receive it.
When someone is suffering, what can we say or do to help? The wise women of my weekly sangha offer advice from years of experience. And the Buddha has a few guidelines too.
Anger activates action, but lovingkindness creates real meaningful change. This post explores just how, and why it’s so important right now.