Publication Day! The Heart’s Awakening
It’s always an interesting day when one of your books is published. It’s exciting. But you’re sending your inmost thoughts out into the world for other people to read and perhaps judge, and so...
View ArticleBooks and cats
It was lovely to receive this photograph the other day. This is Mara, one of the people who wrote an endorsement of my forthcoming book, “The Heart’s Awakening,” receiving her advance copy. The cat in...
View ArticleMudita 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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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...
View ArticleEmily 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...
View ArticleBodhipaksa 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...
View ArticleMeditation: 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...
View Article100 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...
View ArticleUpekkha 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...
View ArticleEquanimity’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...
View ArticleCultivating 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...
View ArticleCultivating 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)...
View ArticleGet ready for “100 Days of Lovingkindness”
Yesterday we finished up our 100 Day Meditation Challenge, which was an opportunity to build up a habit of meditating daily over a period of 100 days. Many people managed to sit every day, and many...
View ArticleTibetan monks to take over Museum of Natural History this week for meditation
Make your thoughts as extinct as the dinosaurs on the fourth floor. Twelve Tibetan monks will lead meditation sessions at the Museum of Natural History this week under the Hall of Ocean life’s giant...
View ArticleBodhipaksa 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...
View ArticleMeditation: what can and can’t be taught
Explore the Brahmaviharas: The Heart’s Wisdom: Four Meditations for Cultivating Love, Compassion, Joy, and EquanimitySteven Schwartzberg, Huffington Post: By most standards, I’m a fairly experienced...
View Article100 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...
View ArticleUpekkha 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...
View ArticleEquanimity’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...
View ArticleCultivating 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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