Wise effort—the effort to be present—can also be called an act of love, for it invites us to show up for this life with open arms, open awareness,…
During these challenging times it's important to steady our hearts so we can tend ourselves and then respond and tend the world around us from a place…
How do we listen to each other when we’re so polarized? In this podcast we explore how when we meditate from a place of “don’t know mind” we s…
This is a time when the veils have been lifted—with the pandemic, climate change, & calls for justice we see that we are not separate. When we medit…
What these divisive times call for more than anything else is an ability to listen with the heart. The Buddha explained that if the members of a socie…
Meditation is a deep listening with the body, heart and mind to find a graciousness, wisdom, and ease amidst all the change around us. Invite a sense …
This meditation is for calming your heart and mind. Steady yourself by relaxing into the breath. When your breath becomes soft, let your attention bec…
What is right effort? Simply the effort to be mindful, to notice what is happening in the present moment without judging it. In Zen it is called effor…
Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it's understood in Buddhist psychology that if we…
Bring a compassionate attention to your body.... hold your body tenderly, with its joys and its tightness, its longings and its love, as if you would …