Guided Meditation for Peace and Happiness
now deep breath and breathe outbreathe in breathe outbreathe in breathe outnow how to be calmbreathe in and feel the lungsgive your guts and feel… Read More »Guided Meditation for Peace and Happiness
Summer Solstice Ecstatic Dance this Sunday, June 21!
Hi, everybody! Please join us for a special Summer Solstice Ecstatic Dance on Sunday, June 21. All proceeds go to support Lotus Center. Here is… Read More »Summer Solstice Ecstatic Dance this Sunday, June 21!
Vital Instructions for Kassapa
You should train yourself thus, Kassapa: “A keen sense of shame and fear of wrongdoing shall be present in me towards seniors, novices, and those… Read More »Vital Instructions for Kassapa
Lotus Center Receives One of Three 30-Something Grants!
Our community-owned Lotus Center was one of three southwest nonprofit organizations to receive a $30,000 grant from The 30-Something Fund. The proceeds of the grant… Read More »Lotus Center Receives One of Three 30-Something Grants!
The Boy Who Could Not Sleep
Long before he was a monk — before he had even heard the word — a restless boy in Kampala was learning to be still.… Read More »The Boy Who Could Not Sleep
Cultivate Simplicity
Take a page out of the Taoist tradition: aim to live in simplicity (pu) and non-action (we wei) — a state of simply being rather… Read More »Cultivate Simplicity
On Anxiety
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened. Mark Twain
Karma
The premise of the law of karma is that the universe is not merely physical, but also moral. Cause and effect governs the physical aspects… Read More »Karma
Emptiness & Form
Form is empty.Emptiness is form.Emptiness is not other than form.Form, also, is not other than emptiness. Avalokiteshvarafrom The Heart Sutra
The Taoteching #25
Something mysteriously formed,Born before heaven and earth.In the silence and the void,Standing alone and unchanging,Ever present and in motion.Perhaps it is the mother of ten… Read More »The Taoteching #25