Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.