“It is the kindness of the buddhas to provide us with a complete path, and the preliminary practices are part of that path.”
Gaylon Ferguson explains that through both shamatha and vipashyana meditation we bring our mind back to its original state.
Margaret Wheatley and Pema Chödrön discuss how organizations can acknowledge their confusion and trust in the goodness of the underlying order.
While tension and imbalance manifest as discursiveness, a truly balanced body generates an ease and relaxation that naturally supports the awakened mind.
Training her mind, training her dog—Mary Rose O’Reilley on the pleasures and pitfalls of learning to sit without barking.
Heaven is nowhere else but right here on this earth, when we live with friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
Whether we’re in a pristine rainforest or our own backyard, says Mark Coleman, nature is always available to deepen our mindfulness.
The ground of fearlessness, says Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is renouncing hard-heartedness and allowing ourselves to be tender, sad, present.
Is the Dude a Zen master? His enigmatic pronouncements are certainly food for thought—or nonthought.
“Isn’t that the kind of teaching we need these days, that difficult circumstances can be the path to liberation. That’s news you can use.”
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