We will spend the next few weeks exploring the practice of loving kindness as a pathway to happiness. As you know, the cultivation of kindness and loving presence is a central part of our mindfulness practice. It determines the quality of our attention, how we relate...
Introduction Last week we explored the practice of gratitude as a pathway to happiness. Today I would like to continue this exploration of true happiness and talk about how we can cultivate joy in our life through the practice of generosity. A few months ago, I told...
Introduction The revered Cambodian Buddhist monk Maha Ghosananda, during the Khmer rouge and post-communist transition, used to ask:” If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? “ His name means “great joyful proclaimer”....
I would like to spend the next few weeks exploring how we can use our mindfulness practice to cultivate feelings of happiness and well-being in the midst of the ups and downs of our life. I have noticed recently that I was carrying a heavy heart around, that the...
Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but is already here, right now, in relaxation and letting go. Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do. Whatever arises in the mind has no importance at all, because it has no reality whatsoever....
