To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.