Awakening Love Section I: Metta (Maitri) or Lovingkindness Practice
So far we have primarily emphasized awareness, equanimity, concentration, and contentment. These qualities will merit further attention, and wisdom should well up from within as the practices take hold and the inner sense of presence responds. Now we turn to the quality of Love, one of the [...]

Toward An Integrated Awareness Practice
In order to give the scope of this subject its due and proper consideration, it appears that this part of the Essay will establish what a spiritual practice is, how to establish it and how to begin. Part IVb will explore the intricacies of advanced practice, up to and including the [...]

Birth, Death, The Dark Night, and Rebirth, leading to Initiation, individually, and for Humanity, as seen through the Buddha’s Four Absorptive States
The processes leading to initiation are those of hard work, dedication, pain, experience, love, self-forgetfulness, learning how to serve, equanimity and time (among other factors) involving the ebb and flow of energy. All this [...]

The Modern Disciple, Points of Tension as Spiritual Practice, The N.G.W.S., Planetary Tantra, Bodhicitta from a Hierarchical Perspective
It might be useful to look at the current world picture of crisis and opportunity through the eyes of the Dzogchen tradition. This is a spiritual transmission that emerged somewhere in northern India about the second century B.C. [...]