Accepting your Nonacceptance
A lot of people come to meditation practice in order to learn to accept things. But how do we that? We encounter a lot …
Dhamma Letters
Don’t Build your House on the Sand
This world that we inhabit is so changeable and uncertain. There certainly can be moments of beauty and ease in it, but …
United in Suffering
Our sangha is a diverse group. There are young people, older people, people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. …
The Lotus
At a recent retreat, Ajahn Da urged the retreatants to practice so that their awareness can blossom like a flower. For …
Sati-Sampajanna (Mindfulness & Full Awareness)
I would like to reflect on two key factors the Buddha urges practitioners to develop and maintain in order to reduce …
Let it Be
My teacher, Ajahn Da, often summarizes our practice as seeing and knowing what is here, particularly in the mind, and …
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
It’s said that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. This is not really true of course. A dog can learn new things at …
In Difficult Times
We are living in very difficult times. We are still dealing with COVID. The economy is struggling. There is a deepening …
Catching Tadpoles
In the practice of Mahasati insight meditation, we develop the faculty of being able to observe what is occurring in the …