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We are always practicing. Practicing walking to the store, practicing buying many things or little, practicing being angry at the person who is taking foreve...

Buddhism identifies at the root of all of our suffering a form of grasping that causes emotional disruption and misapprehends the true nature of reality. Thu...

Where are you? You seem so far. When I look on a flower, I see your face. But the flower fades, and yet you do not. You are keeping me afloat my Great Salvat...

If we have a job or go to school, or if we find ourselves in a regular routine, we are confronted with the problem of repetition and newness. Repetition seem...

What are the qualities of an ideal spiritual practitioner? The basis of it all is that they are dedicated completely to cultivating love and wisdom, not just...

Service is love in action. It is the expression of the meaningful connection of all people. Service cleanses us of our negativities like a healing balm. It m...

In the memory of our Love there is a living lineage, passed down through the generations. Each of our ancestors took their moments to open and learn and shin...

When we begin to deepen our ability to appreciate things and people, we begin to recognize the value of things and people. This is both a good thing as well ...

To take refuge in someone or something is to rely on them for deliverance from suffering and hardship. In life we can take refuge in our entertainments, in e...

In this world we live in, one of the primary causes of suffering is attachment, attachment to our views, attachment to our ego, and to anything it cherishes....

When we possess something it means it belongs to us, meaning that it is set in distinction to other things that we do not possess and that others may not pos...

When Roman road men paved the streets with stones in all directions everyone knew where they were going and where they were coming from, for all roads lead t...

We as human beings are innately valuable, we all have a precious heart, we all share in the Transcendent, and therefore we are all equal in this light. On th...

Time is a very relative experience. Sometimes time seems to go slowly, especially when we are experiencing something we don't want like traffic or a day at t...

When we make choices we change the world around us based on our will. Those choices will bring about positive or negative consequences. The intention from wh...

Patience Things tick us off sometimes. Its hard to overcome that. However, the practice of patience can help us to realize that it is not the things or peop...

We are all submerged in the Ocean of Bliss, The Ocean of Pure Consciousness, the Transcendent. These waters are outside of us, as well as inside of us. There...

One of the goals of meditation practice is to liberate our minds and hearts from the restrictive effects of our grasping concepts. Concepts about ourselves, ...

I see the black and white, and every color in between, but beyond all sight I see with my Heart. I hear the low and high, and every note and clamor, but beyo...

The moon shines through the clear ice of a cool, still pond. No sound. Only the cool breeze's crisp, traveling, flow, cleansing everything. This isolated pla...