I pay heartfelt homage to you, Lokeshvara; you have true compassion extending to all. To those who in all of the comings and goings have seen that all things are inherently void, and thus can devote both their time and their efforts with one aim in mind – “Let me benefit...

The Necessity for a Pragmatic Means Imagining what it would be like to be as perfectly balanced in our sensitivity as a Buddha gives us some idea of the goal we would like to achieve. Comparing our present level of sensitivity with this ideal also helps motivate us to...

How to run a business and carry out a project based on Buddhist principles.

5 Decisions There are five decisions that come from thinking about the nine points for equalizing our attitude toward ourselves: 1. I Shall Stop Being Fickle, But Rather Develop a Kind Attitude toward Myself Equally All the Time The first decision is: No matter how well or...

The Need for Ethics Responding to others or to ourselves with balanced sensitivity entails refraining from destructive, harmful behavior and engaging in constructive, helpful acts. Restraint from destructive behavior sets the foundation. For example, if we have not...

The Necessity for Joint Development of Warmth and Understanding Achieving enlightenment requires broadening and strengthening our innate networks of positive force and deep awareness until they become networks of enlightening forms and of all-loving deep awareness encompassing...

The naturally occurring internal resources that allow for balanced sensitivity – joy, focus, warmth, understanding, self-control, and a feeling of inspiration – are all factors of mind and heart. To work effectively with these factors requires a powerful conceptual...

Review Today is our second session of the seven-part cause and effect meditation for generating bodhichitta. Yesterday, as an introduction, we looked at some of the factors that are involved in generating the bodhichitta aim. We focused primarily on the conventional...

Review In our discussion of the seven-part cause and effect meditation for generating bodhichitta, we have gone through the sequence up until the final stage, the result of what we’ve been building up. We spoke of the basis, which is equanimity, free of attachment,...

Review This morning is the fourth session of our discussion of the seven-part cause and effect meditation method for developing the bodhichitta aim. We have discussed the ground floor level, or step number zero, of this process, which is to develop equanimity. This...