Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
Bearing With, Bearing Fruit
We share our love of truth through receptivity to kindness. As we learn to trust others, we can trust ourselves to explore beyond the limitations of the thinking mind. When we study the face of fear itself, gradually we break through to seeing its…
Crossing the Stream
Crossing the stream is knowing the way of true happiness and unshakeable peace. We have greater freedom from anxiety and we can walk peacefully in life with deeper understanding of how our mind works. To explore the Dhammas of the mind’s inner workings is…
The Way of Spiritual Power
Good will and wisdom are great spiritual powers. As truth seekers and explorers, the silence of the mind is our wellspring for these and for insight, peace, and true refuge from the troubles of worldly life. When others react, we reflect. When there is…
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,…
With a Heart of Forgiveness
When we remember to bring forth gratitude and restore peace, we can abide in a heart of forgiveness. There is so much goodness to know. Even if it feels impossible – we give ourselves to awareness in this moment and we know the goodness. We…
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….
A Web of Mindfulness
My first teacher taught me: ‘All is One – There is nothing else.’ Seeing things in their true light, we can lose our fear. I learned this while watching giant golden spiders. They were scary – and my early mindfulness was weak. When we’re…
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…
Be Bread, Share Blessings
Can we ‘be bread’ for ourselves and those we meet who are hungry in spirit? Through the goodness of our practice, with the understanding gained in the silence of the heart, we open to a freedom without boundaries – letting go the weight of…
Not Giving Up But Waking Up
Bowing in the currents of life, we navigate with a generosity of attention and heart. Whatever happens, the sign of the Dhamma rises in us like a glowing sun. We receive it, know it, open to it, and welcome its wondrous light to guide…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54