Facing the roots of suffering by developing kindness for ourselves and others through the practice of renunciation.

Maintaining continuity of mindfulness in our moment-to-moment experience is a tightrope of continual re-balancing as life changes. Surrendering to this process strengthens wisdom and love.

An exploration of two rare and precious qualities; generosity and gratitude.

Loving the purifying aspect of mindfulness practice and loving pure exploration.

What are the qualities of awakening that allow us to open, awaken to any moment of our lives and be truly liberated: with boredom, with rage, with hopelessness, with the breath, with any experience.

Detailed description of each Brahma Vihara, in generating and pervading them through oneself and to others in receiving them. Examples of each - enlightened leadership; using Brahma Viharas as basis for political freedom. How acts of kindness have rippling effects with unknown and mysterious consequences.

Part 1 illuminates the fundamental nature and support of faith, or confidence, as a sustaining force in practice. Courageous energy follows, as the courage required to carry Dhamma into depths of one’s being.

How calm concentration and equanimity help us uproot the causes of war and develop the roots of peace within us.

Perfectionism, self-judgement, self-hatred, our eating habits and freedom.

Patience and renunciation: what they are and how they support the development of mindfulness and the path to liberation.