Forgiving Ourselves
Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have…
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Moving Toward Freedom
Learning takes place only in a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.—Krishnamurti There are four principles for mindful transformation of difficulties, poetically articulated by Michele…
Practice: Meeting Difficulty with Wise Intention
Pick a situation of difficulty or conflict with others. Reflect on your last encounters and on the motivation from which you operated. How did this…
Inner Freedom: Liberation of the Heart
If we do not focus on human limits and pathology, what is the alternative?  There is another orientation, a way to recover our human happiness. …
Natural Joy (Part Two)
(Read Part One: Natural Joy) When I returned to the United States and began to teach, my colleagues and I tended to emphasize the…
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. …
Free From Views
“The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition – no matter how ancient or impressive – it…
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…
Disentangling from the Story
It is a great relief to discover that our stories do not fully define who we are, or what is happening to us. Â One practitioner…
The Place of Forgiveness
Inevitably in working with the mixed difficulties of communities, teachers, and ourselves, we will be asked for a certain measure of forgiveness. Forgiveness does not…
Enacting Mindfully
The fifth skillful means for working with difficulties is called Enacting It Mindfully. Let’s face it, we act out most of our desires anyway. In…
