Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
Taking Care
Do we have enough awareness to purify the mind? If we practice humility – not being kidnapped by self-obsession or distraction – if we live with restraint and focus, we come to realize and discover who we really are. Our spiritual parent in this…
The Cedar Loop Walk
Walking the cedar loop trail brings memories of those who have passed and are memorialized on the grounds of the monastery. While reflecting on their passing, inevitably we reflect on our own. This powerful way of practice brings to the forefront of consciousness the…
An Ocean of Kindness
How do we abide in peace? Let us develop awareness. Listen and try to be peaceful with all that arises in consciousness. Meditate, be present, attentive, and aware – here and now. We try to understand more deeply how the mind works. Can we…
A Beautiful Knowing
We may think we are mindful, but it’s good to look more carefully, with humility, and check. Are we actually present? Otherwise, who is living our life? Can we really sustain present moment awareness and know the purity of what we are? Bearing witness…
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…
How Can I Wake Up?
With the Buddha as our guide, we walk a courageous path. See how the world burns from cruel and chaotic forces? At times we may feel that we are on sorrow mountain. But we persevere, protected and faithful. And with uncompromising nobility, we transform…
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 Mystery
Life is a mystery. We don’t’ really know from where we come or where we are going. But as we reflect on this mystery, we can abide in gratitude – because it is a gift. Seeing it’s boundlessness, we no longer limit it with…
Contentment
Contentment protects us from greed and ill will by riding the waves of life without getting too lost in the highs or swallowed up by the lows or wanting things to change. Again and again, we contemplate the nature of mind that naturally inclines…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54