Zen Master Roshi Jiyu Kennett on Pride and Inadequacy

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Pride and Inadequacy are two sides of one coin.

Zen Master Roshi Jiyu Kennett

Dot Fisher-Smith on Awe

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Awe is all around us. With a little intentionality, we can reclaim our sense of wonder in the everyday, ordinary moments of life. Perhaps awe, while an ordinary response to the extraordinary, is also an extraordinary response to the ordinary.

Dot Fisher-Smith: To Be In Awe – WISDOM from a 96 year old

Michael Hyatt on Journalling

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Thoughts disentangle themselves, passing over lips and through pencil tips.

Michael Hyatt

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on True Contentment

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From an attitude of true contentment (Santosha), unexcelled happiness, mental comfort, joy and satisfaction, are obtained.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on True Contentment

Michael Johnson on the Foundations of Meditation

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Remembering the Foundations of Meditation:
Ānapānasmṛti ≈ mindfulness of inhaling and exhaling

  • Vipaśyanā ≈ insight
  • Maitrī ≈ loving-kindness
  • Vicāra ≈ inquiry
Michael Johnson, Meditation and Yoga

Buddhist Teaching on the Five Hindrances

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Grasping, craving or desire, anger, sloth, restlessness, and doubt—these are the known as the Five Hinderances to Medin Buddhism. In this dharma talk excerpt, Ayya Anandabodhi explains in-depth each of the Five Hinderances and how they obstruct us from seeing things as they really are.

Buddhist Teaching

Ayurveda teaching on Pitta

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When fire and water combine, they create steam. Fire is hot, mobile and sharp and water is liquid and “oily. These are “pitta” qualities known to govern the workings of your body and mind. “Pitta” helps metabolize your food and metabolize your emotions as well as your experiences and thoughts. When pitta is in balance, one has a keen intellect, balanced emotions and a natural proclivity for
problem solving.

Ayurveda teaching on Pitta

Madame Guyon on What Silence Is

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Now do you understand what Silence is, it is being Still, ceasing your efforts to make things happen…no sooner do the bodily eyes close, than the soul is wrapped in prayer… it is amazing that so great a blessing enjoys an internal converse which external matters cannot interrupt.

Madame Guyon, Christian Mystic

Anandamayi Maa on the Eternal Unconditioned Awareness

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In recognizing the eternal unconditioned awareness that is our true self, we unlock the door to the infinite, the eternal, the divine, the very essence of timeless teachings…in doing so, we may just discover the boundless wisdom that is our own fundamental nature waiting to be unveiled.

Anandamayi Maa

Lama Yeshe on Becoming Your Own Therapist

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Becoming your own therapist means examining your own mental attitudes and understanding the nature of your own mind (your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours). Understanding the nature of your own mind allows you to control your mind naturally, without needing to push or force it…
This involves being aware of your internal world and recognizing the patterns and habits that shape your mind…you can cultivate a more positive and compassionate mindset, greater self-awareness and
inner peace.

Lama Yeshe