Cultivating a Change of View
The Precision of Buddhist Descriptions
How to see a news factoid from a Dharma perspective.
Dhamma Discussion
Discussing the Dhamma is said to be one of the greatest blessings in life. It is also a skill. Do we understand how to use this opportunity as the path?
The Ecology of Wisdom
This multifaceted quality has three interconnected forms, all of which should be strong and balanced.
Really Seeing
"Seeing clearly" means removing the dual lenses of societal expectations and past habits.
Inner Spin
Discovering how your own mind is not an innocent observer of experience -- and what you can do about it. Sankharas can be reshaped.
Finding the Dharma in Any Experience
Anything is a door to the Dharma. Meeting experience with calm or with action can help allay the fear of suffering.
Thank You for Your Great Effort
A way to release some parts of the mind that are holding us back in subtle ways.
Getting through the Door
Life brings us a series of encounters, each one a "door." How can we get through each door with little or no suffering -- maybe even with joy? Attention and care matter.
Explorations Toward Anatta
How we begin exploring views beyond the personal, limited self.... necessary steps, but not the final arrival
The Emergence of New Eyes
"Practice consists not of going to new places, but of seeing with new eyes." ... But how do these new eyes emerge? It takes practice.
Embracing Opposites
Practice expands the mind in wonderful and helpful ways. What kind of mind can hold it all?
The Power of the Mind
Practice expands the mind in wonderful and helpful ways. What kind of mind can hold it all?
About Time
Learning to expand one's notion of time beyond the "personal time" that feels oppressive is the doorway to a timeless freedom. Not just for us, but for society.