True and Useful . . . and Kind
Seek and say what is true and useful with kindness for self and others.
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein…
If you pay closer attention to your steady stream of thoughts, you may be surprised at how many of them are negative. Fear and its many manifestations, including worry, anger and judgment, can cause an unending flow of pessimistic and downbeat self-talk. The first step in overcoming fearful and unhelpful patterns of thought and emotions…
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, renowned for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. A gentle, humble monk, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called him “an Apostle of peace and nonviolence” when nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Exiled from his native…
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Ram Dass pursued a panoramic array of spiritual methods and practices from potent ancient wisdom traditions, including bhakti or devotional yoga focused on the Hindu deity Hanuman; Buddhist meditation in the Theravadin, Mahayana Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist schools, and Sufi and Jewish mystical studies. Perhaps most significantly, his practice of karma yoga or spiritual service…
What we think and say can have a dynamic impact on our attitude and experience. It may seem obvious to some, but it’s taken me many years to fully absorb how my thoughts and words powerfully influence my mood, feelings and day-to-day experience. I used to get buried under clouds of habitual negative thinking and…
Calm Abiding refers to a Buddhist meditation practice (shamatha) that seeks to quiet the mind. Its primary aim is to train the mind to reach a kind of focused concentration by allowing it to settle in with the experience of many thoughts constantly flowing through.
“Whether our project is the flight from pain or the pursuit of happiness, the outcome is the same: a life in flight from itself and from this moment. And this moment turns out to be the only answer there is, the only self there is, the only teacher, and the only reality. All hidden in…