Watering the Seeds of Joy
After 25 years of police and criminal justice work, Cheri Maples co-founded the Center for Mindfulness & … Read More
Openness to Whatever Arises
After 25 years of police and criminal justice work, Cheri Maples co-founded the Center for Mindfulness & … Read More
How Compassionate is Compassionate Conservatism?
Bush family presidential advisor and author Doug Wead is credited with coining the … Read More
Sleeping Meditation
Take rest. Let the process of your practice unfold all by itself. Let your healing have its own rhythm. Keep … Read More
The Mindful Street Cop
After 25 years of police and criminal justice work, Cheri Maples co-founded the Center for Mindfulness … Read More
Community for the Homeless
Imagine 3,000 homeless adults and children lined up outside a convention center in the middle of … Read More
Tree of Contemplative Practices
Clinical psychologist Lorne Ladner, who wrote the excellent book, The … Read More
Charter for Compassion
Here is the complete text of the Charter for Compassion: The principle of compassion lies at the heart of … Read More
Every Human Being Needs Empathy and Compassion
After President Obama stated that he would use “empathy” as one criterion for selecting a candidate for the U. S. Read More
How can communities be compassionate?
Community in the narrow sense is a neighborhood or a cluster of neighborhoods. Read More