Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
Anger and fear are perilous, flammable states of mind – like barnacles attached to a ship’s hull that undermine its power to sail. So we call on wise discernment and forgiveness to rescue us. We take stock: is there any anger within me? Or…
Just as one refines gold, we temper the restless thoughts and moods of the mind. We listen and deepen awareness in joyous silence, peaceful and benign. It’s a noble healing of every harm we may have suffered in life. Instead of running from pain,…
Between beauty and terror lies the Middle Way, at times crushing, at last – transcendent. Can we receive all of life with the pure love of awakened awareness? Just listen and watch in silence. Open and understand the heart in pure presence – the…
We are caught up in the world – as if we’re in jail. But we are also on the threshold of silence wherein lies the key to pure, infinite, wordless presence. Isn’t that love – timeless, universal, here and now? Sustain that purity of…
Our practice is a unique opportunity to develop our deepest potential for happiness as human beings. We use the skills of interior investigation with patience and courage to study the intimate workings of the mind. Well-guided by the Buddha’s teachings, we gradually learn intuitively…
Hatred is a mental prison. We are blessed with freedom from it as long as we can abide in universal love well-nurtured in our own heart. For nature is its own reward and our true nature is nothing short of that pure metta. So,…
The world goes on the way it does. We have no control over these conditions – just as we cannot escape diseases of the body. But waking up is not beyond us. Bowing to the present moment is our homage to awareness, to pure…
Do joy, peace of mind, and trusted friendship rely on the state of the world outside, or on the qualities we foster within us? In the vast presence of pure awareness, trust and courage lift our feet forward, one at a time. We are…
Mindfulness of pure present moment awareness guides us to the blessed joy of awakening. But can we still the interior tides of emotion and thought enough to taste that freedom? Everyday, devote time to witness habitual thought patterns and worldly attachments. Stopping in the…
How can a bitter tasting medicine heal physical illness? Just so, understanding suffering can liberate us from it. Listen to the dance of impermanence arising and falling endlessly. Bear witness to thoughts of fear, anger or sorrow flowing into the sea of awareness and…