Love

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.

Using Mindfulness to Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Using Mindfulness to Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Even now, even with our world changing so dramatically, the eternal wisdom of Mindfulness, Truth, Love, and Service can guide as we face the numerous uncertainties that lie before us. If you have a mindfulness practice, maintain it. If you don’t have one, start it today.

Training Four (4/4): Who Am I? Using Inquiry to Understand Selflessness

Training Four (4/4): Who Am I? Using Inquiry to Understand Selflessness

Learn who you truly are! Use inquiry to discover your true selfless nature. This group meditation is available in audio, video, and written formats for your convenience. Enjoy!

Training Four (3/4): The Story of Nothing (and Everything!)

Training Four (3/4): The Story of Nothing (and Everything!)

All the saints and sages tell us we are all one. How is that even possible? What does that even mean? The Story of Nothing (and Everything!) helps unpack this unusual idea, and will hopefully blow your mind wide open. Haha. Enjoy!

Commitment Four (1/4): Respect All Life

Commitment Four (1/4): Respect All Life

Learn how to recognize the inherent worth and value of all life and treat both friend and foe with courtesy, dignity, and respect. We investigate the old saying: "the suffering masses reject what they see and believe what they think, while wise people reject what they think and believe what they see." Using a smart phone camera, we explore relating to our world non-conceptually and explain how this view allows our unconditional love to flourish. 

Defining Love: Our Natural State of Being

Defining Love: Our Natural State of Being

In the previous class we concluded that the key to happiness is offering unconditional love to all people, beings, and life forms. But given the various and conflicting definitions of love in our culture, this talk clarifies what we mean by “love” and explains why it is a powerful and effective force for creating social change.

Kindness: The Love That Befriends

Kindness: The Love That Befriends

Learn how to cultivate, grow, and embody kindness. Learn what kindness is, how it feels in the body, and how it is expressed in our thoughts. Learn how cultivating kindness transforms hatred and fear into love. Greed and worry try to masquerade as kindness, but we show you how to tell them apart. Learn all this and more!

An Intro to True Love: Kindness, Peace, Compassion, and Joy

An Intro to True Love: Kindness, Peace, Compassion, and Joy

What is love? How does it relate to truth? What are the four ways that love shows up in our lives? How can love be intrinsic to who we are and boundless in its scope, when we so rarely experience our inner love? How do we work with love to benefit our lives and free ourselves from our suffering? Learn all this and more.