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Inquiry Leads to Truth, Love, and Skillfulness

Inquiry Leads to Truth, Love, and Skillfulness

Inquiry is about is asking good questions and using your direct experience to figure out the answers. By looking, noticing, and seeing things, you start to notice patterns and gain insights that help you free yourself from your suffering. You also grow in wisdom, love, and skillfulness.

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Reflections on Beloved Community and Nuclear Disarmament

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Reflections on Beloved Community and Nuclear Disarmament

Because this week is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we pause to send love and healing to all affected by war, and reflect on how we are called to be peacemakers.

What Are You Willing to Die for?

What Are You Willing to Die for?

In this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we overcome our fear of death, illness, and discomfort, while still taking appropriate precautions to safeguard our community, family, and ourselves? In this video, talk, and article, which is a part of our Wisdom of Peace Pilgrim training series, we explore how the path of love can help us overcome our fears.

Reframing Problems

Reframing Problems

How can we relate skillfully to problems so they don’t cause us to become fearful, angry, or overwhelmed? How can take advantage of our problems to nurture our mindful and loving heart? Explore these answers in the video, talk, and article Reframing ProblemsI, which is part of our Wisdom of Peace Pilgrim Training series.

Understanding God (Love)

Understanding God (Love)

As a nonsectarian organization, the Boundless Love Project generally avoids God-talk. We recognize that many people have been traumatized and persecuted by religious wisdom traditions, and to make our trainings inclusive, we keep them secular and nonsectarian. But in this post, we strike new ground by sharing with you what nonsectarian wisdom teacher Peace Pilgrim thinks about her direct understanding of God. We hope that both our theist supporters and atheist members find the talk relevant, useful, and inspiring.

Who Was Peace Pilgrim?

Who Was Peace Pilgrim?

Learn about the incredibly courageous and wise wisdom teacher Peace Pilgrim. She was an extraordinary woman who was healthy, vigorous, and joyful as she walked penniless for 28 years. She owned nothing but a few simple items which she carried with her. She walked until given shelter, and fasted until given food. And she received these things without asking for them. She did all this so she could share her message of peace with others, which she summarized like this: “This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”