Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

RAIN is a useful acronym for the four key principles of mindful transformation of difficulties. RAIN stands for Recognition, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nonidentification.

If you want to live a life of balance, start now. Turn off the news, meditate, turn on Mozart, walk through the forest or the mountains, and begin to make yourself a zone of peace.

Sylvia Boorstein

Gorillas in the Mist.

A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.

bodhisattva vows based on the words of the beloved sixth-century sage Shantideva: May I be a guard for those who need protection A guide for those on the path A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood May I be a lamp in the darkness A resting place for the weary A healing medicine for all who are sick A vase of plenty, a tree o

form. As Zen master Dogen says, “Flowers fall with our attachment, and weeds spring up with our aversion.”

Debra Chamberlin-Taylor,

Dipa Ma and other Buddhist teachers demonstrate the remarkable possibilities of the awakened heart. In Transformations of Consciousness, Harvard psychologist Jack Engler reports on his study of Dipa Ma and other advanced meditators.