traversing the landscape of our practice in whatever forms it takes - our family life - parenting as practice as well as "on the cushion". The fadctors of mind/heart needed for awakening are available in any moment.
What mind experiences as truth, the heart experiences as love. In all spiritual traditions, the experience and cultivation of a devoted heart is integral in being wholly human and awakening to the holy.
The Buddha offered a comprehensive guide to spiritual living. By reflecting on the interrelated facets of the path, we bring our practice alive in all domains.
Intimate relationship can be a vehicle for cultivating authenticity, understanding our shadow, and true opening of the heart. The challenges and opportunities of using a primary relationship as part of our awakening process are explored.
We can't control all the thoughts that pass through our minds. What we can do is learn how to work skillfully with troublesome thoughts and patterns in the mind so they lose their power to confuse us.
Genuine healing is the opening to wholeness. This talk explores how the practice of mindfulness brings a vitalizing and transforming healing to our bodies, hearts and minds.
large portions of our life are raced through in a mechanical and uncaring way. this talk focuses on the ways that we compartmentalize spiritual life. guided meditations and reflections address how we can cultivate the quality of unconditional caring presence in the midst of all experience.