We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said:… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
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