Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
On Our Own Lifeboat
Dare we go inside our own boat to find true safety? Enter the silent stillness of the mind and listen. This intuitive knowing connects us to the heart. We leave the world behind and tap into an inner energy field of pure receptivity –…
Drop By Drop
Can we dedicate every single moment to full awareness living? That’s what it takes to totally free the heart from suffering. Whether active with others or spending time alone, resorting to a secluded resting place and removed from social interaction, we study the mind…
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…
Inner Splendor
What is grace in this world? When noble qualities flower within us, that is grace. We come to know our true nature as we witness the pure mind’s transcendent luminosity. Listening to the Buddha’s teachings, we learn how to open the gates to the…
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,…
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,…
Opening the Heart
Though we feel powerless to change the state of the world, we can change our own minds. We can open to peace here within us. Regardless of our vacillating moods or reactions, awareness is ever present. So staying present and aware, learn to trust….
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…
Without Pain, No Enlightenment
When we suffer in body or mind, we are called to investigate pain and its causes – are we ill, threatened, injured, broken in spirit, or have we hurt someone else? Awareness of the causes enables us to respond well. But reflecting on and…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54