30 Days of Metta: Cultivating a Kinder Mind
A freely offered program - 30 days of guided meditations
Make a Contribution
There are many ways to contribute. Please allow yourself to feel and appreciate your own generosity as you contribute in any of these ways.
Dedication to Practice
A regular practice can offer so much into the world. This includes meditation practices with an intention towards awakening, or practices to bring more kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity for yourself and others into the world.
Supporting your Community
Supporting those who can use some extra care in your community is an important way to express generosity locally. Simple kindness towards strangers you interact with. Awareness and care for those who are being oppressed and suppressed societally and otherwise. Or helping meet someone’s basic needs, as in donations to organizations that offer food and shelter.
Donations to Support Robin
In the Buddhist tradition, the teachings are offered freely and the community supports those bringing the teachings. If you would like to support my continued teachings, you can make a financial contribution to me at:
Black Lives Matter
Resources for Understanding and Liberation
It is natural for historical events to slide out of day to day consciousness; however, it is important to keep in mind that even in moments when overt acts of racism or brutality against black people are not in the public media, these ARE current moment events and issues.
They continue. Most recently Tyre Nichols.
As you remember the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many other black people before and since by police, continue to nurture connection with each other and authentic emotions. As we move forward in time, let us not move backwards in our personal, spiritual, and social development.
If you are white bodied, as I am, please take the time to become educated about how we have all been racialized both explicitly and implicitly. Allow the movement of this moment to touch you, open you to exploration and shifting perspectives so that we do not continue to engage in harming behaviors out of ignorance
Other offerings: Confessing to Happiness
by Brian Lesage
The Skill of Opening to the Joys of the Spiritual Path
One day King Pasenadi went to visit the Buddha in the Sakyan town of Medalumpa. He expressed to the Buddha his delight in seeing the practitioners “smiling and cheerful, sincerely joyful, plainly delighting, their faculties fresh, living at ease, [and] unruffled…”MN89
With all of the talk about suffering in Buddhism, we can often forget the joy, ease, and contentment that provide the foundation and expression of this spiritual path. The Buddha continually encourages us to savor the joy and contentment that arise from such things as ethical conduct, generosity, appreciative joy, and concentration. Even the practice of renunciation is taught from this perspective of joy and happiness. For example, in the Dhammapada the Buddha says: