Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

How well we have learned to let go