Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
Harness the Power of Loving Kindness
The Buddha guides our way to inner purity and awakening through cultivating the special qualities of universal love. First, we devote ourselves to a noble life of virtue, kindness, and care for others. We practise humility, patience and forgiveness, and observe our own conduct…
Waking Up to the Deathless, Guided Meditation and Reflections
When the mind opens to the present moment in a humble, homage, witness way, sustaining that, know every wave in the ocean of the heart. In the silence of here and now, awareness melts all thought. We can see with clarity and listen with…
Love Everyone the Same
Spiritual abuse is a hidden danger even among the most well-intentioned. If we allow the ego to undermine our nobler instincts, we fall prey to power and authority. Vigilant awareness will alert us and open our eyes to truly see and wisely protect the…
Seeing With Eyes of Kindness and Compassion
As an alms mendicant nun, dependent on the kindness of others for nearly four decades, I reflect on the generosity as well as the violence in this world. And yet, this path yields immense blessings. For the Buddha’s teaching is founded on the Noble…
The Astonishing Love Within You
There is much fear in this world and yet there is a wondrous way beyond fear. Just as humans create weapons of mass destruction, we are capable of the exact opposite – nurturing the enlightened mind. We need only wake up from the toxic…
The Big Old Skin of Ego
Do we really want to wake up? We may have to face painful truths about ourselves. So we examine the depth of our dedication to this spiritual work and we watch out for the ego. The Buddha had zero tolerance for young monastics who…
First Aid for the Heart
How do we extinguish the fires of greed, hatred and delusion that burn within the mind? The Buddha has thrown us a lifeline. We grab hold of it right here and now – one moment at a time. Free yourself from relentless conceptualizing and…
In the School of Truth
How true can we be so we don’t have to lie? Not just in what we say or think but also in how we live this precious life both in our doings on the outside, and also what goes on inside the mind –…
Stand Strong Like the Trees
Living in the forest, we are always aware of the trees. Patient, deep-rooted, even in fierce storms, they stand. So stand like the trees, committed and enduring. See the world with pure awareness, just the way it is. Living in a state of gratitude,…
Trust in Pure Awareness
The Buddha encourages us to abandon the unwholesome and develop wholesomeness in our daily acts, words and thoughts. As we learn to trust in pure awareness and present moment mindfulness, the weight of the world is lifted from the heart. Here and now, we…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54