PRACTICES

During difficult times, love, kindness, and truth are acts of resistance and personal freedom. We can befriend what grips us. Practice mind taming techniques. Look for experienced and caring assistance. Cultivate wise hearts that can hold it all. Act from generosity and mutual care. Take a little time to smell the roses.

What if what's got you baffled, anxious, mad, or miserable (straw) becomes a lifelong practice opportunity for greater understanding, reverence, and self-compassion (gold)? I'm not talking about self-improvement. But, rather, about making the choice to step back, breathe, notice, and release our grip on how things are supposed to be. In doing so, no matter how difficult, grace, ease, and love have space to emerge and lead the way. For example: One client, a hospice nurse, was

Tibetan Buddhism offers aspirational chants and prayers to cultivate compassion, wisdom, non-judgement, connection with all beings, and...