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Cultivating compassion (Day 26)
There are four related dimensions of lovingkindness, together called the “divine abodes,” or Brahmaviharas. These four are (1) lovingkindness itself, (2) compassion, (3) appreciation, and (4)...
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Cultivating equanimity or evenmindedness (upekkha) (Day 76)
I see equanimity as love accompanied by insight. The fourth of the series of practices we’ve been exploring in this 100 Days of Lovingkindness is evenmindedness, which is more often translated as...
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Equanimity’s “far enemies” (Day 81)
Buddhaghosa decribes the “far enemies” of equanimous love like this: “Greed and resentment … are its far enemies … for it is not possible to look on with equanimity and be inflamed with greed or be...
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Upekkha as an insight practice (Day 85)
One of the things I love is that when you spend some time hanging out with a practice, you often start to see it in new ways. This has happened for me with each of the four brahmavihara practices we’ve...
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100 days of lovingkindness (and compassion, and joyful appreciation, and...
Today is Day 100 of Wildmind’s 100 Days of Lovingkindness. For me it’s been a blast. Somehow I managed to keep to a schedule of having a blog post each day, which means that I’ve written enough...
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Meditation: what can and can’t be taught
Explore the Brahmaviharas: The Heart’s Wisdom: Four Meditations for Cultivating Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity Steven Schwartzberg, Huffington Post: By most standards, I’m a fairly experienced...
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Bodhipaksa is teaching in Australia, March 2017!
Rainbow at VijayalokaBodhipaksa is teaching in Australia in 2017! He’s been invited by the Sydney Buddhist Centre to lead a week-long retreat on lovingkindness and the other three “divine abidings” at...
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Emily Dickinson: “The brain is wider than the sky…”
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. — Emily Dickinson Dickinson’s poem, “The Brain is Wider Than the Sky” suggests...
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Gratitude
Let’s practice gratitude this month. Every morning when you wake up, and or when you go to bed at night, think of at least three things you can have gratitude for. I will practise along with you. This...
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Mudita is not “sympathetic joy”
This is an extract from the introduction to my current course on Mudita, which is part of a longer series of teachings on the brahma-viharas — also known as the “immeasurables.” The third of the...
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