Audio: Vastness and Love Dharma Talk
With a spacious heart, we can remember the bigger picture. What would it feel like to love the whole kit and caboodle—to make our love bigger than o…
Tag: Impermanence
Video: Learning to Surf
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification. We can begin to sense and observe the…
Patience is the Wrong Word
Patience has a certain impatience built into it. In Zen the word is “constancy.” Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 35 – Wisdom & the Characteristics of Life
In embracing our humanity, we move into the pure awareness of our own true nature, learning to live wisely and discovering freedom and compassion regardless…
Practice: Seeing from the Universal Perspective
Buddhist psychology is filled with practices that shift us to the universal perspective. These include contemplations on the vastness of time, the cycles of impermanence,…
Free From Views (Part Two)
Read Part One: Free From Views Such listening is never more powerful than when we sit face to face with the mystery of death. …
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 21 – What Changes Us
The spiritual path seems as much a journey of becoming who we are, rather than attaining some elevated sense of self. But what circumstances must…
Inquiry and Observation
Wisdom grows out of our clear seeing in each moment. Seeing the arising and passing of our experience and how we relate to it. It…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 01 – Impermanence
Jack discusses how to navigate change in relation to the Buddhist concept of impermanence. He touches on the importance of meditation in cultivating a healthier perspective…
Misconceptions About Selflessness
Misconceptions about selflessness and emptiness abound, and such confusions undermine genuine spiritual development. Some people believe that they can come to selflessness by struggling to…
Healing Through Emptiness
The last aspect of mindful healing is awareness of the universal laws that govern life. Central to it is an understanding of emptiness. This is most…
