Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
Setting Good Intentions – Then Life Happens
How powerful, disarming, and distracting is the sense world where the mind is easily caught in desire, hate and delusion. Clinging we suffer. But sufferings spur us on to discover a quality of peace that is unshakeable. When we learn to abide with the…
Enter the Timeless – Guided Meditation
We are eager to know how to quiet the restless and anxious mind. But how will peace ever come in the face of life’s struggles? Listen to that inner cry with present moment awareness. Softly, simply, be present, balance, and rest on the pinnacle…
Water the Flowers of Awakening
As pure witness, we sail the inner sea in our own heart’s silent awareness. Not plundering the mystery of this silence with concepts, we listen. Even in the midst of the noise of life, or the chaos of the world, we can stop there…
Be Your Own Doctor
When fear, anger, sorrow, or shame arise, the Buddha advises us: “Be your own doctor.” See. Feel. Know the suffering within. To cherish the silence of the mind is to go beyond fear and all cousins of darkness. When we rest in the present…
When the Ship Leaves the Harbour
We are ever concerned about what we eat and the condition of the body. Yet care for the mind brings spiritual health. It’s a question of balance. Mind is the forerunner of all things. And happiness and joy will surely follow when we rejoice…
Practise Disarmament
Compassion is the benevolent sister of harmlessness. Caring for ourselves, we care for each other – just as caring for each other, we care for ourselves. But how shall we live harmlessly in a world filled with anger, greed, and ignorance? May virtue prevail…
Seeking Buddha Every Moment
To understand suffering is to know the way out of suffering in our life. So, we trust the perfectly enlightened Buddha – most noble friend and guide to the heart’s awakening. Turning away from greed, hatred, selfishness and conceit, cleanse the cobwebs of delusion…
The Unrelenting Light
“Do not hate those who wrong you. How else can you manifest the unborn power of compassion.” Hatred even of our critics is not the resort of the wise. Day by day, know the blessings of peace, of forgiveness, kindness and pure awareness. Wisdom…
Guard the Jewels of Your Heart
The world is forever fraught with the fires of greed, hatred and delusion causing much harm and suffering within and around us. Seeking refuge from the mind’s vulnerabilities and restlessness, we secure our spiritual moorings. For here and now, as disciples of the present…
A Blessing Key
The Buddha left us a blessing key to wisdom and freedom. Can we use it for awakening? In the face of all the inevitable challenges of this human life: painful feelings, worries, fear, illness, betrayal, loss of the loved, aging – so many ways…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54