The five hindrances are difficult and painful forces in the mind, but also potential sources for greater freedom in our lives. We transform ourselves moment after moment not by getting rid of these energies but by learning to wake up within them.
Understanding how the practice of lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity provides a container for our understanding of emptiness--wisdom--that we learn in the mindfulness practice.
commentary on a children's story reflecting the similarities in Native American and Buddhist understandings of one's transformation and transcendence in the spiritual quest.
