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The fourth boundless abode, equanimity, is the perfect partner of compassion.  Equanimity is the stability…

Learning to feel joy for others can help transform our own suffering and self-centeredness into…

Compassion is not an idealized state. It is a profound realization that we are not…

Every time we narrow the vision of what we really are, we become afraid and…

The Four Boundless Abodes are lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. These are qualities of…

I could stand on the bridge and get the sense of being completely with her,…

Published in SHAKING THE TREE

The grass seems lusher in the wet gray air, but less approachable now— thick curtain…

from Where Many Rivers Meet

translation by Jane Hirshfield

All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets. Tickets, tape, crystallized stones, a…

My aspens dear, whose airy cage quelled,Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,All felled,…