Already home - part 1
The whole point of meditation or prayer or whatever we are trying to do is to discover the fundamental principle of human nature, to go into this deep nature, to touch our mind, the fundamental princi...
7 Touko 20171h 21min
Widening the Circle of Love - part 4
Our fundamental awareness, Vajrayana asserts, prior to all patterns of self-centered clinging, is essentially unconditioned, pure and undefiled. Our basic awareness is a limitless expanse of emptiness...
5 Touko 20171h 3min
Widening the Circle of Love - part 3
The traditional image of equanimity is a banquet to which everyone is invited. Training in equanimity is learning to open the door to all, welcoming all beings, inviting life to come visit. Of course,...
4 Touko 201759min
Widening the Circle of Love - part 2
The wisdom taught in Mahayana traditions opens us to others in compassionate intimacy not only through insight into their condition but also through recognition of the ultimately undivided nature of a...
3 Touko 20171h 4min
Widening the Circle of Love - part 1
Compassion and wisdom are interrelated in varying ways within three leading Buddhist traditions. In early and Theravada Buddhism, compassion is a power for deep mental purification, protection, and he...
1 Touko 20171h 19min
37 Practices - Verse 28-30
Look again and again at what cannot be seen. At some point you see nothing - you really see nothing. You know, through your own experience, that there is no you in you, no fixed point, nothing. That e...
30 Huhti 20171h 35min
37 Practices - Verse 27
What is that stillness, that space, in which reactions arise and disappear? When you look at it, you see nothing at all. It is a bit frightening. It is like looking into the void of outer space. Somet...
19 Huhti 20171h 30min
37 practices, Verse 25-26
Transcendental generosity is generally misunderstood in the study of the Buddhist scriptures as meaning being kind to someone who is lower than you. Someone has this pain and suffering and you are in...
4 Huhti 20171h 31min
