Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
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…
What Is True Joy?
What is true joy? All too soon, joy declines because of its nature to change, like all conditions of life. True joy is not an idea or belief in a perfect moment but it is knowing the truth of change and how to free…
Rare, Hard to Do, Only Solution
Living in the forest, we are always aware of the trees. Patient, deep-rooted, even in fierce storms, they stand. If we stand like the trees, committed and enduring, we can face the conditioned world with pure awareness. We see it just the way it…
Silent Homage – Guided Meditation
The heart’s splendor is known in pure awareness – not tainted by any harmful thought or feeling. It is integrity itself – present now. Traverse from the self, the narrow sense of me and mine, to surrender – knowing that we are nothing of…
Arahants Have No Barnacles
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…
Refining Gold
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, we…
Vanquish Hatred With Love
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,…
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…
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…
Refuge
True refuge is a call to stop, even for a moment, to see and know the breath that brings the world into and out of consciousness. We witness the liberating silence of that present moment awareness. In the still space between thoughts from which…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54