Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.