Growing Compassion, Attention, Presence: the 4th Mindfulness Training From a talk by Walt Keough in 2012 Loving speech and deep listening are broader, wider practices than might first appear. Practice and effort are needed just to become ready to listen…
SnowFlower Sun March 2021
Finding the Positives from a talk by Don Katz-March/April 2013 If, as the Second Mindfulness Training, “True Happiness”, tells us, “we already have more than enough conditions to be happy,” the questions becomes how do we learn to notice the…
SnowFlower Sun February 2021
SEEDS FOR A BOUNDLESS LIFE – Part 1 By Zenkei Blanche Hartman; Excerpts by Susan O’Leary “When we sit in meditation, we can see the tranquil world despite the chaos that is present in and around our lives. The seeds…
SnowFlower Sun January 2021
MY MASTER’S ROBE by Thich Nhat Hanh My monastic ordination at Tu Hieu temple was scheduled for 4:00 o’clock in the morning. The night before, after chanting practice, I saw my teacher (Master Thanh Qui, of Tu Hieu Temple) sitting…
SnowFlower Sun December 2020
Awakening Joy through the Practice of Gratitude from a talk by Mary Michal in January of 2015 I used to think that joy was a feeling that I would either experience or not, and the same with gratitude. I now…
SnowFlower Sun November 2020
Discourse on the Dharma Seal from a talk by Jim Roseberry (Spring, 2013) What is the essence of this discourse in which the Buddha identified the Dharma Seal as the Three Doors of Liberation: emptiness, signlessness, wishlessness. To answer this,…
SnowFlower Sun October 2020
Tonglen Loving Kindness from a talk by Cheri Maples Tonglen is a loving kindness practice that has its roots in the Tibetan tradition. Interestingly, it is actually the reverse of the loving kindness meditation we usually practice. Normally we breathe…
SnowFlower Sun September 2020
APRANIHITI – the Third Door of Liberation from a talk by Amy Krohn Thay gives us many touchstones to rely on in our practice, so beautifully pulling profound concepts into simple explanations, and then encouraging us to practice and work…
SnowFlower Sun August 2020
Practicing Compassion Amid Chaos & Illusion from a talk by Jim Roseberry in 2016 The term ‘compassion’ maintains an exalted status in Buddhism. Avalokiteshvara (or Kwan Yin) is revered as the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Along with loving kindness, joy, and equanimity, compassion is…
SnowFlower Sun July 2020
Where is Thich Nhat Hanh Right Now? from a talk by Steven Spiro, Spring, 2015 Thay is known for saying that the next Buddha will be the Sangha. In Buddhist tradition the next Buddha is called Maitreya {from Sanskrit ‘maitri’,…