Gratitude and grief may seem to be in tension with one another, but gratitude and loss are inseparable. Awareness of what is present calls forth what is absent. Grief embodies our humanity …
Today my heart is breaking, out of universal values for peace, dignity, and respect, my commitment to nonviolence, the particular pain of my people, and of all those affected by these recent events.
Our son is now two months old. As I reflect, the learnings seems to fall into three main areas: shifts in myself, in relation to my wife, and through my relationship to our son
To do any kind of real work requires both external and internal resources. We need resilience to face pain, strength to persevere through challenge. There’s nothing quite like joy to bring resilience and strength to the heart.
Trust, faith, aspiration and confidence are essential ingredients in the Dharma, the path to awakening taught by the Buddha. Written at the Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA.