Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
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…
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…
Truth Works
Can we feel Truth working through us in our human form? We all arise and pass within this tapestry of experience. And its spiritual tests appear as sufferings – yet they bestow incomparable joys and peace. Whatever we endure pierces the darkness to release…
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
Goodwill 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 chaos,…
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…
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…
Our Walk for Peace
Like a mother, the Buddha walks us in the ways of the Dhamma, teaching us how to turn the mind to peace and true refuge. Our fear of fear can be disabling, but just to witness our fear or grief or any unwholesome thought…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54