“I think Buddhism is at a crossroads. We can no longer sit on the sides and be observers of the pain of others. We must go into the marketplace with our truth: Causes plus conditions equals outcomes, impermanence, and shatter the illusions that have created destruction and hatred for generations.”

Recorded on March 1, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, NY.

Recorded on February 23, 2025 at Millerton Zendo, NY

The whole point of Buddhist practice is so we can help people. That’s the whole point. We clean up our mess a little bit, open up our heart, and then we can extend our hand out into the world that is utterly insane. And we can go into the world without needing to dominate because we understand that we’re not separate and that everyone is suffering. This is the wellspring of joy.

Recorded on January 25, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.

“Reckoning with the fact that our time to be in an embodied form is limited is a
A practice that helps us with what matters, what we feel responsible to, what we want to do with the limited time we have. even though it is uncomfortable…and how we care for ourselves around death.”