We have been born into this awesome, mysterious, incomprehensible, wild world of change. As humans, we’re not super excited about continuous change. It makes us feel vulnerable. We have this yearning for openheartedness in this world, and yet we’d like to feel safe, too. We want some kind of lasting security, which we go about […]
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Brightening the Mind: Non-isolation, by Venerable Ajahn Sucitto
What follows is a response to a query from my last posting: ‘How do you brighten the mind?’ The question isn’t an unusual one, and that in itself says something. Despite hundreds of years of human development, improvement in terms of health, communications, opportunities for travel, let alone a deluge of commodities, the mind often remains a gloomy or barren space… Continue reading article
Compassionate Awakening: Interview with DaRa Williams
This interview is reprinted with permission from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center website. Spirit Rock: Why is the cultivation of compassion (karuna) essential to awakening? DaRa Williams: There is a non-acknowledgment around the fact that the two go hand-in-hand. Awakening is not a separate state of being that comes into existence without the cultivation of the heart […]