Forgiveness allows us to reclom the energy that's been bound up in the past or the imagined future. Forgiveness practice can be transforming in very deep ways,

Can we relinquish our preference of picking and choosing? Can we be with phenomena…whatever it is, just as it is? This is our practice. The truth is lying in wait to be seen and known right in this moment.

This talk discussed expanding our practice to include the development of the ten spiritual qualities of an awakened person.

Freedom is the cessation of craving (tanha). What is tanha, how can we recognize it and what happens when it ceases.

The aim and the fruit of generosity and compassion are two fold. We give to help and to free others; and we give to help and to free ourselves. This is the fullness, the seamless circle of compassionate generosity.