Right Livelihood, Money, and Poverty Mentality: An Interview with David Nichtern
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Let the Healing Water Flow: Taking Good Care of Your Second Chakra
Your good health, happiness, and inner peace all depend on a smooth flow of energy—the harmonious balance and clarity of your seven chakra energy...
Preparing to Bloom? Let Your First Chakra Ground You in Wellbeing
Designed to move energy between your personal field and the universal field, your chakras are invisible but vital engines that replenish your energy and...
The First Chakra: The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Ever feel like you’re totally losing it? Your adrenals are shot. Your lower back is hurting. You tripped into the dog’s water bowl and ruined...
How Can I Be Happy?
Simply being in the present or living in the present is necessary but it's not sufficient. We can recognize something that's present, but it's not...
Love for Love’s Sake
Working within polarities wrought with righteousness, disagreement & ignorance, can we share in the spontaneous, boundless joy of the present moment by offering one...
True Generosity Day 5 – Open Your Heart In Paradise Retreat 2018
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in one last time. Today is the final full day of action here at the retreat. Monday morning brings the closing...
True Generosity Day 4 – Open Your Heart In Paradise Retreat 2018
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in from Maui on a beautiful Saturday evening. We had a marvelous, intense, invigorating, and inspiring day here, with some...
True Generosity Day 3 – Open Your Heart In Paradise Retreat 2018
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in from the island paradise of Maui. As it turns out, you can still catch a cold in paradise. I usually...
True Generosity Day 2 – Open Your Heart In Paradise Retreat 2018
Aloha, Noah Markus checking in from Maui again. The retreat kicked into full gear today with a morning of dharma talks, an afternoon workshop,...
True Generosity Day 1 – Open Your Heart In Paradise Retreat 2018
Aloha, Noah Markus here! Greetings from the island paradise of Maui, where I’m one of the extremely lucky people to be attending the 2018...
KK Sah on Bhav and Devotion
In this poetic excerpt from his book, Deva Bhumi, Ram Dass' closest Indian friend and brother, KK Sah, illuminates the meaning of bhav on...
7 Ways Exercise Supports Mental Health
It’s common knowledge that exercise is great for your physical health, helping you to live longer and have less health issues. But did you know...
A Toolbox For Anxiety
It is election day and an anxious and fearful Noah Markus shares his anxiety toolbox, which is filled with wisdom from Be Here Now...
What Does Eastern Philosophy Say About Addiction and Treating It?
Philosophy -- to put it as simply as possible -- focuses on finding meaning and purpose in life. Most people Eastern philosophy originates from...
Impeccable. What Does it Mean?
Throughout his many lectures, Ram Dass often used the terms “impeccable” or “impeccability”. When I started writing this blog, I felt like I had...
What Death Teaches About Life: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski, an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and pioneer in end-of-life care, has accompanied over 1,000 people through their dying process. Acclaimed author of The Five...
What Is Energy Medicine? Talking with Donna Eden
Donna Eden, a pioneer in the field of holistic healing, is among the world’s most sought-after, joyous, and authoritative spokespeople for energy medicine. Her invigorating...
How to Create Space and Improve Your Parenting: An Interview with Dr. Shefali
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Qigong Master Robert Peng on Common Types of Qi Imbalance
Robert Peng, born and raised in Hunan, China, is a world-renowned qigong master and healer. He began studying this ancient Chinese art of wisdom, love,...
Writing as Therapy, Meditation & Self-Inquiry: An Interview with Alexandra Elle
Alexandra Elle is an author and poet living in the Washington, DC, metro area with her husband and daughter. In her preteen years, writing came...
Krishna Das on Mantras, Chanting, Music and Love
A Free Flowing Conversation around mantras, chanting, music and love with Our Resident Kirtan Wallah. Recently the Be Here Now Network was lucky enough to...
KK Sah on Bhav and Devotion
In this poetic excerpt from his book, Deva Bhumi, Ram Dass' closest Indian friend and brother, KK Sah, illuminates the meaning of bhav on...
Dancing With Change: Ram Dass x Alan Watts
Interweaving the spiritual wisdom of Ram Dass and Alan Watts, Ganesh Das explores how to dance through change, getting free of our attachments to...
Love for Love’s Sake
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You Are the Love of Your Life: Wisdom from the Toltec Teachings
In the best-selling book The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz, Mexican author of Toltec spiritualistic texts, delivers principles to transform our lives into an expression...
What Does it Mean to be an Empath? Ask Matt Kahn
Matt Kahn,author of Whatever Arises, Love That, is a spiritual teacher and highly attuned empathic healer whose often humorous videos are a YouTube sensation. Through...
How Kindness Can Improve Your Life: Wisdom from Sylvia Boorstein
Sylvia Boorstein, MSW, PhD is the author of numerous books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation practice, including That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist: On Being...
The Myths of Love: A Conversation with Sharon Salzberg
Renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, author and host of The Metta Hour podcast for the Be Here Now Network Sharon Salzberg recently sat down with Kate Green Tripp, from...
The Fourth Chakra: The Heart in Balance
In Ancient Egypt, the Goddess Maat was the weigher of souls in the underworld. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, it describes how...
And the Greatest of These is Love
Faith, hope and love; Ben Riggs reminds us why the greatest of these is love. On the spiritual path, we will fall short many times....
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Un-lightened Shadows: A Powderkeg of Polarization
Waking up to the realities of our shadows through the vivid mirror of others, can we move past our projections to deescalate the powderkeg...
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Those Dirty Words: On Mercy and Forgiveness
I have to start this off by forgiving myself. I did not write this blog in a timely manner, and I’ve really been feeling...
Tweaking Our Compassion Computer – Part II: Practice
Stefan Ravalli continues his series, Tweaking Our Compassion Computer, with Part II: Practice. To cultivate our ability to connect to the other, one way of doing this...
Tweaking Our Compassion Computer: Part I
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” We’ve all been hearing that expression since we were kids. It’s an unquestioned means of cautioning someone...
Archetypes in Every Woman: Renaissance of the Feminine with Jean Shinoda Bolen, Luisah Teish, and Sri Swamini Svatmavidyananda
Archetypes in our stories guide our lives in profound and largely unconscious ways. Through reframing classic mythologies, we explore the resurgence of feminine archetypes and...
Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering with David McConville
Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically. The...
Awakening the Genius in Everyone: When the Calling Keeps Calling with Michael Meade
Renowned storyteller, performer, author, activist and scholar Michael Meade weaves threads of timeless wisdom traditions into myths for today’s global crisis. Michael Meade says each...
A Beginners Guide to the Soul Land Music Series
Welcome to the Soul Land Music Series: Songs & Stories Inspired by Ram Dass. Music as a Vehicle Rounding the year anniversary since the first wind...
The Musical Ally: An Interview with David Silver
As part of our exploration of the concept of music as an ally, the Awakened Heart Blog was lucky enough to talk about the...
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
In this excerpt from "In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea" Danny Goldberg takes us back to the Summer of...
The Sufi Mysticism of Music, Sound, and Vibration
Within the sayings and practices of both Sufism and music, one can find all the necessary conditions that are needed to cultivate higher states...
Best of 2022 – Top Episodes from the Be Here Now Network Family
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The Importance of Stillness and Inquiry: An Interview with Adyashanti
Adyashanti, author of The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the...
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What does it take to be honest? This question came to me on my walk along the Hudson River this morning. Our guru, Neem Karoli...
The Tiger’s Journey of Nonconformity and Neurodivergence
Have you read the children’s book Mr. Tiger Goes Wild? I think of it often when I reflect on modern life. The book portrays a...
“Life is Not About an Ideal Endgame”: Max Strom on Finding Meaning
Max Strom is a global speaker, author, yoga teacher, and trainer, best known for deeply impacting the lives of his students with teachings that reach...
Dead Set on Living
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A Conscious Partnership: Be Here Now Network and 1440 Multiversity
We are thrilled to have 1440 Multiversity as the first sponsor of the Be Here Now Network’s podcasts! 1440 Multiversity is the nation’s newest learning...
Satsang: A Community of the Heart
An Exploration of Satsang Growing up in the “spiritual” scene, I never really registered just how different it was. Like, maybe having 20 to 30...
My One Week Old Daughter – The Patriot
Born at 4:11pm on January 14, 2017 and filled with light by the energy of a full moon, my daughter has come with the...
Moving Forward: Insight From The Next Generation
Raghu’s latest podcasts have all had some focus on the coming sea change of government administrations. He has talked to spiritual luminaries like Sharon...
Community: Finding Satsang
At the time of writing, it has been about a week since the 9th Annual “Open Your Heart in Paradise” retreat on Maui has...
KK Sah on Bhav and Devotion
In this poetic excerpt from his book, Deva Bhumi, Ram Dass' closest Indian friend and brother, KK Sah, illuminates the meaning of bhav on...
“The Light Is Always Within Us”: Talking with Yoga Star Seane Corn
Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher and impassioned global activist. Featured in magazines, on NPR, and on Oprah.com, Seane uses her platform to...
Why Yoga Is One (Ancient) Size Fits All
It’s pretty easy to convince ourselves that we aren’t the “type” for a given job, friend, adventure, or form of exercise. I fall into this...
Touching into Samadhi – Exploring 8 Limbs of Yoga
“Nobody can say 'I am in samadhi.' One cannot talk or communicate. Samadhi is an experience where the existence of 'I' disappears. Explanations can...
Dhyana & Being With What Is – Exploring 8 Limbs of Yoga
The seventh limb of yoga, Dhyana, moves deeper into the practice of developing awareness. Whereas Dharana is the practice of one-pointed meditation, or focus...
Hold Steady – Working with Dharana – Exploring 8 Limbs of Yoga
Working with Dharana is part of a developing series for Be Here Now Network, exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga, and the ways in which we can...
Pratyahara: Withdrawing with Intention – Exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga
When practicing pratyahara we are asked to withdraw from whatever experience we are working through- but to do it with intention and direction. A previous...
The Niyamas: Inward Observing – Exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga
Whereas the Yamas place a lot of focus on recognizing ourselves in relation to the world around us, the Niyamas bring deeper focus to...
The Yamas: Relating to Ourselves, Others, and the Earth – Exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga
The first limb of yoga, the Yamas, speak to the difficulty of relationship and social dynamics. Hoping to guide us into a more authentic...
Breath, Mind, and the Present – Exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga
“Bring your attention back to the breath.” “Keep breathing!” “Breathe into your edges and soften.” The list goes on, but I think you get the point....
Yoga Off The Mat – Exploring the 8 Limbs of Yoga
Your favorite yoga class starts at 6, you’re running late from a meeting after work, there’s traffic, but despite it all, you get to...
Yogic Deities: Archetypes & Self Realization | Dr. Manoj Chalam
This is a general educational piece on common Hindu and Buddhist deities, mantras and archetypes/practices written by Dr. Manoj Chalam. You can find information about...
Best of 2022 – Top Episodes from the Be Here Now Network Family
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7 Ways Exercise Supports Mental Health
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Nutrition Is Far More Important Than Many People Realize: Lessons from the World’s Largest Nutritional Study with Thomas M. Campbell
Thomas M. Campbell, MD, is co-author, with his father T. Colin Campbell, PhD, of The China Study - the largest study on nutrition ever conducted. He is a...
Clarity and Confidence in the Modern Workplace: Why It Matters
Heath Slawner, one of the lead teachers for Simon Sinek—the visionary voice behind the concept of WHY—specializes in strategic communication and leadership and has...
Vulnerable Creativity: Talking with Mari Andrew
Mari Andrew is a writer, illustrator, and speaker best known for her creative daily posts on Instagram. What started out as making one drawing a...
“How Am I Using the Financial Resources That I Have?”: A Conversation About Money and Purpose with Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is the author of the best-selling The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life and founder of the Soul of Money Institute. She...
The Dharma of Our Times
Sitaram Dass reflects on the struggle of engaging ethically and responsibly in the modern world. In this search he turns to the wisdom of...
Beyond Westworld: TV’s Invitation To Higher-Quality Guilt
Teddy Flood, from HBO’s Westworld, is a character with a mysterious backstory. Handsome, brooding, a cowboy, and on TV - of course he’s got a...
Mistaking Individualism for Freedom
Writer, activist, and musician Sitaram Dass invites us to question the freedom our role in society really gives us and to analyze the value...
Ram Dass on the Need for Inner Social Action
“Inner social action” is necessary in order to make our outer actions productive. There have been many dark ages throughout history. As we now enter into...
Spiritual Bypassing: Moving Beyond Spiritual Trappings
Spiritual bypassing, a phrase coined by the psychologist John Selwood, is the use of spirituality to avoid our painful feelings, unmet needs, and unhealed...
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Mirabai Bush: A Journey Home
In celebration of her new podcast, Mirabai Bush illuminates her journey through India alongside Ram Dass, to the feet of Maharajji, and into the...
Religious Devotion for Skeptics
For many years I harbored serious qualms with organized religion. In all honesty, I still do. But when I moved to Thailand in 2010...
How I Met My Mother – Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr shares her process of turning to the Divine Mother to navigate the emerging landscape that is life. "How I Met My Mother" was...
Reclaim Your Natural Ability to Live Your Purpose
Are You “One of Those Purposeful People"? I was speaking with my friend the other day and was struck by the fact that he seemed...
Karma Yoga: Always Be Practicing, Always Be Serving
“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of...
How To Make Any Service Role A Means of Creating Transformation
Service Can Give or It Can Take...It’s Your Choice. When we think of service, we often consider it to be a type of job you...
Honoring Simple Moments or Embracing New Experiences? The Importance of Both At The Same Time
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place...
Welcome To The Family: Hospitality As A Spiritual Practice
A 2007 study by political scientist RD Putnam discovered that people are more likely to socially retreat when in ethnically diverse environments. Our tendency...
The Dalai Lama’s Policy of Kindness
"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular...
How Can I Be Happy?
Simply being in the present or living in the present is necessary but it's not sufficient. We can recognize something that's present, but it's not...
A Toolbox For Anxiety
It is election day and an anxious and fearful Noah Markus shares his anxiety toolbox, which is filled with wisdom from Be Here Now...
Exquisite Balance: An Excerpt from Sharon Salzberg’s New Book, Real Change
How do we navigate the overall unruliness of life, so filled as it is with urgencies—tasks left undone, friends who need help, health problems,...
How to Thrive If You’re a Highly Sensitive Person: An Interview With Elaine N. Aron, PhD
Elaine N. Aron, PhD, is a clinical and research psychologist, author, and pioneer in the field of high sensitivity. She has published five books, including The Highly...
The Art of Listening: An Interview with Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are couples therapists with over 40 years’ experience. They co-created Imago Relationship Therapy, an approach practiced by more...
“How Am I Using the Financial Resources That I Have?”: A Conversation About Money and Purpose with Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is the author of the best-selling The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life and founder of the Soul of Money Institute. She...
“A Simple Way to Break A Bad Habit”: Lessons from Dr. Judson Brewer’s TED Talk
“When we get curious, we step out of our old, fear-based, reactive habit patterns, and we step into being.” – Judson Brewer, MD, PhD For many of us, mulling...
Seize the Day: Practicing Mindfulness in the Workplace
Mindfulness teacher Laurie J. Cameron, the author of The Mindful Day, reflects on the dramatic benefits of practicing mindfulness in the workplace and shares practical...
Our Appointment with Life -Thich Nhat Hanh on Mindfulness
"When we throw a banana peel into the garbage, if we are mindful, we know that the peel will become compost and be reborn...
In the Moment, In the Workplace
We hear quite a bit about being in the moment these days. Celebrities and CEOs have spoken out about how adopting the practice, has improved...
Mindfulness in Plain English – Henepola Gunaratana
How would you deal with the death of your spouse? How would you feel if you lost your mother tomorrow? Or your sister or...
Mirabai Bush: A Journey Home
In celebration of her new podcast, Mirabai Bush illuminates her journey through India alongside Ram Dass, to the feet of Maharajji, and into the...
Puppy Is My Guru
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about this old Ram Dass story where he was staying at a house that came with a cat....
unconditional love – melanie moser
i went to maui to visit ram dass for a private retreat in the summer of 2015. he wasn’t well at the time. his...
A Room Called Imagination: Trust and the Guru
Our teacher is prolific. As much as we want, he gives. He gives and gives and gives. Even now, at age 86, post-stroke and...
Meeting the True Guru – Kabir
"When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you...
The Breath Inside the Breath – Kabir on the Role of the Guru
“Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas,...
Does It Make You Free? – Adyashanti
In speaking regularly with spiritual seekers, it dawned on me one day how addicted so many of them are to the power of charisma. They...
Dancing With Change: Ram Dass x Alan Watts
Interweaving the spiritual wisdom of Ram Dass and Alan Watts, Ganesh Das explores how to dance through change, getting free of our attachments to...
Staying In The Moment
Are You Time Travelling or Staying in the Moment? When I was 11 years old, my mother took me on a trip to India. It...
On Seeking God – Alan Watts
For more from Alan Watts on seeking god and more, visit the Alan Watts Electronic University "It is surely absurd to seek God in terms...
Understanding Emotional Intelligence with Daniel Goleman
My model of emotional intelligence has three levels. First, there are the neural circuits at play, particularly the dynamic between the prefrontal cortex –...
Understanding Your Mind to Master Yourself with Judson Brewer, MD
Judson Brewer, MD is a psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness...
Understanding Trauma, Addiction, and the Path to Healing: A Conversation with Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade with patients challenged...
The Essential Power of Being Aware: Talking with Dr. Dan Siegel
Dan Siegel, MD, is an internationally acclaimed author, educator, and child psychiatrist who has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. The executive director...
Retreat Is Not An Option
Separation and Integration as Essential Operations On our Path to Wholeness In 1963, Ram Dass and Tim Leary left Harvard to explore the paths of...
A Long, Strange Trip – Psychedelics and Loving Awareness
A Long, Strange Trip For many people, psychedelic drugs such as LSD (acid) and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) can act as a gateway to an expanded...
The Purpose of Psychedelics [Video] – Terrence McKenna
The true purpose of psychedelics is to share with the world fresh ideas. Throughout this animated short talk, Terence McKenna talks about all of the...
Mirror Neurons and Empathy – Judith Orloff
Elegant brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy. The recent discovery of “mirror neurons” has done for behavioral health what DNA has...
Aging Gracefully: Insights from Dr. Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and a New York Times best-selling author of 15 books...
The Challenge of Reactivity – Ram Dass
The challenge is working to extricate ourselves from the reactivity to suffering around us, not to the denial of it, which we’re trying to...
The Courage of Prayer – Anne Lamott
The Courage of Prayer “My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted...
Discovering Our Inner Wealth – B. Alan Wallace
Imagine a very poor man living in a decrepit little shanty, the only thing he owns in the world. What he does not know...
Best of 2022 – Top Episodes from the Be Here Now Network Family
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Dancing With Change: Ram Dass x Alan Watts
Interweaving the spiritual wisdom of Ram Dass and Alan Watts, Ganesh Das explores how to dance through change, getting free of our attachments to...
Finding Hope in a Dark World: A Conversation with Ram Dass
I was first introduced to the book Be Here Now in 1972 by the big sister of my high school sweetheart. I had already been reading books...
The Importance of Stillness and Inquiry: An Interview with Adyashanti
Adyashanti, author of The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the...
Full Connection Meditation – Lama Surya Das
Find a practice That naturally takes you out of your thinking mind, Like walking, jogging, swimming. I do it on a treadmill or while walking outside along a...
Mindfulness as a Daily Habit
Mindfulness as a Daily Habit… All of us can remember those first moments of clear presence when we realized there is a path to inner...
Practice with Melanie Moser
How do we keep our practice alive over time? Everything ebbs and flows. Cycles of the moon, the seasons, our energy throughout the day, creative...
In Stripping Away Our Hope, Maybe Trump Has Done Us a Favor
The outcome of this election is a wake-up call to action. Now that we know our elected leaders will not save us, let’s get...
“The Bodhisattva Path in the Trump Era” by David Loy
Zen teacher David Robert Loy gives a new and insightful perspective on the reality of America's current political climate. Much of the country, and the world were...
Meditating on Self-Care
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The Importance of Slowing Down – Joseph Goldstein
Slowing down seems impossible these days. The constant contact and connection available at our fingertips facilitates so much of our lives. What can we do...
Don’t Miss the Flower – Thich Nhat Hahn
One day the Buddha held up a flower in front of an audience of 1,250 monks and nuns. He did not say anything for...
Many Ways up the Mountain – Jack Kornfield – Meditation
Many Ways Up The Mountain - On Meditation... There are many ways up the mountain, but each of us must choose a practice that feels...
Mindfulness in Plain English – Henepola Gunaratana
How would you deal with the death of your spouse? How would you feel if you lost your mother tomorrow? Or your sister or...
Thoughts on Meditation – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
“Whenever thoughts arise, just observe them as thoughts and label them “thinking.” What usually happens when we have thoughts is that we absorb ourselves...
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How Can we Turn Happiness and Suffering into the Path of Enlightenment?
Turning Happiness and Suffering into the Path of Enlightenment In Tibet in 1926, Dodrup Chen Rinpoche III wrote a small booklet called “Turning Happiness and...
44 Mindful Moves in Daily Life – Thich Nhat Hanh’s Gathas
THICH NHAT HANH´S GATHAS Dwelling in the present moment, We can see so many beauties and wonders right before our eyes–a child’s smile, the sun rising,...
Nature of the Mind
How do we get used to remaining in the nature of the mind? When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come; there’s no...
The Time to Stand: Practicing the Dharma in Times of Uncertainty – Jack Kornfield
Whatever your political perspective, now is the season to stand up for what matters. To stand against hate. To stand for respect. To stand for...
Jewel Heart: Remembering the Life of Gelek Rimpoche
On February 14, 2017, the world lost a great teacher, Gelek Rimpoche. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1939, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche was recognized as an...