The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.