lovingkindness practice

Kindly awareness

If your life feels like a struggle with the world, it may be that your real struggle is with yourself.…

August 1, 2012

The most fundamental thing you have in common with any other being

There's a verse in an ancient Buddhist text that says something to the effect that we all want to be…

June 25, 2012

Awakening to our true nature

Spiritual practice is about coming back, over and over again, to love and mindfulness, making those our home. I subscribe…

May 29, 2012

“As a parent raises a child with deep love, care for water and rice as though they were your own children.” Dogen

So I was walking to the office the other day, when something rather lovely happened. Before I say what that…

March 27, 2012

Six ways to sustain benevolence in ourselves and in our relationships, nations, and world

Benevolence is a fancy word that means something simple: good intentions toward living beings, including oneself. This goodwill is present…

January 17, 2012

Five steps to opening the heart to peace

For many years I co-led a yoga and meditation retreat with a friend.  The retreat was called Open Heart, Quiet…

January 16, 2012

Five ways to increase your joy

Joy (sukha in Pali) should be our natural state of being. Unfortunately, though, we've been brought up in a society…

January 14, 2012

See the person behind the eyes

Most of us wear a kind of mask, a persona that hides our deepest thoughts and feelings, and presents a…

December 21, 2011

“A Little Book of Love” by Moh Hardin

This is the first book by Moh Hardin, an acarya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. He lives…

December 2, 2011

The science of lovingkindness

Right at the very beginning of my meditation practice I was introduced to both mindfulness of breathing and the development…

November 29, 2011