As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

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 sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.

We can always begin again.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.