The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness…. Galway Kinnell Many years ago, during one of those traumatic times life can throw at you, I read these words from Galway Kinnell’s “Saint […]

Turning our lives in the direction of kindness can be done… It can only bring benefit and happiness. I can do it. You can do it. ~ Sharon Salzberg Longtime Buddhist teacher, Sharon Salzberg, says the above shortly after quoting the following passage from the Buddha’s teachings.  This is a sutra I’ve never heard of […]