Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
This is the Path – Guided Meditation
We trust that entering the path of Dhamma practice will yield incomparable joy and peace enough to fully satiate the heart. We cannot demand it but we know if the path is to bear fruit, we must walk it patiently, humbly, and graciously, with…
Cicada Madness
While on retreat in the forest, an infestation of cicadas surrounded my meditation hut for weeks on end with intense, incessant screaming. Headphones offered no relief from the din. While bearing it, I closely observed mental pain. That meant seeing and knowing despair and…
Save Your Mind
When we bear ill-will to anyone in life, it’s a sign that there is some hatred being carried within. This is self-harming. It’s like taking poison. Even worse, if we dwell in poisoned habits of thought, fear, anger, selfishness, or careless ways of being,…
Teach the Mind to Stay
Meditation practice takes the courage and patience to pay close attention to your own experience. Look inward and dive into the heart beyond all mental fabrication to see with a still, clear, objective, and purified mind. When the mind is empty of opinions or…
What We Are Is Timeless
Can we trust the current of Dhamma to take us to the ocean? Not the vast ocean of samsara, but the ocean of compassion and wisdom which is far greater! What’s more, we can enter it if we trust waking up to the truth…
Full Moon at Its Peak
The Buddha’s universal antidote to suffering is activated in the heart. It works through pure undiluted awareness when we begin to taste a boundless peace – far from fear, worry, or depression. Practise this pure presence and directly see your true nature. So where…
The Path of Love is Under Our Feet
We long to know unconditional love. And yet we keep seeking it all around us instead of stopping to look within. At this very moment, we intimately, intuitively come to know our true humanity in the very silence of the heart. Stopping long enough,…
If We Only Knew – Guided Meditation
The root of saraniya, reconciliation, is sarana, refuge. The silence in the heart is our most powerful refuge. And sati, mindfulness, is the mother of opening the heart and coming to know who we really are. We must come empty to the Buddha, or…
Brave Lotus Rising – Guided Meditation
Consciousness plays a beautiful silent concerto in the mind’s pure presence. Listening deeply, beyond the masks of the conditioned world that appears and disappears, without grasping or getting lost in any of it – we explore the truth of the present moment. What do…
Start Where You Are
Where is peace if not within us? The world may be on fire but we start where we are, guided by the Buddha himself. Just being with the breath, studying the law of impermanence, see how it is ever changing – arising and ceasing….
~ Dhammapada Verse 54