6/11/2026 “The Long and Winding Path to Freedom” with Rich Howard
A long hike requires many resources: a healthy body, food and water, the right clothing and gear, not to mention motivation and a sense of direction. The practice of mindfulness, […]
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A long hike requires many resources: a healthy body, food and water, the right clothing and gear, not to mention motivation and a sense of direction. The practice of mindfulness, […]
Anger creeps into our lives uninvited, disguised in a variety of forms. it is a multi-faceted emotion that is on the continuum of “ill-will,” (dosa in Pali) the second of […]
We take up meditation and engage in dharma study to cultivate morally skillful behavior in our speech and action. Ethical conduct is not an adjunct to practice, it is at […]
Perception is one of the proximate causes for mindfulness to arise. Perception is also the source of concepts, confusion, and papanca, the proliferation of thoughts that causes us to suffer. […]
Equanimity, and the unique form of happiness that accompanies it, is considered one of the most important qualities of mind and heart in Buddhist practice. It is frequently misunderstood. And […]
Everyone has heard the phrase “being your own worst enemy” which points to the way we can sometimes use negative self-talk to sabotage or hold ourselves back from progress on […]
Gil Fronsdal writes: “Some people have a strong tendency to resist change of any type, including new perspectives and understandings.” “Not me” we might think, “I know about impermanence.” But […]
Why do we practice, and how do we practice, in a life that keeps moving, changing, and asking things of us, especially in times like these, when the world feels […]
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