Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
Our True Home
The heart’s splendor is known in pure awareness – unstained by thought, nor tainted by anticipation, regret, fear, greed, anger or any harmful feelings. It is integrity itself – present now, we traverse from the self, the narrow sense of me and mine, to…
The Promise of 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…
The Noblest Healing of All
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,…
If You Want the Moon
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…
On the Threshold of Silence
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…
This Is Sanctuary
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…
We Are Not Separate
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…
The Miracle of Mindfulness
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…
A Ministry of Love
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…
What More Can I Give?
After long years of monastic renunciation, living in seclusion and devoted to spiritual practice, I began to question if this was enough. Was I deluded about the quality of my efforts? Had I really let go the world living with so much peace and…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54