Can we feel good about ourselves without tearing others down or needing to be perfect all the time? Yes. And the key to this is self-compassion.
Understanding the Negativity Bias of the Brain and Using Gratitude Practice to Overcome It
Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth by Adia Gooden
Must Watch Ted Talk Defining Consent and Speaking to the Need for Safety
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize of Beloved Community
Inquiry Leads to Truth, Love, and Skillfulness
World Day for Farmed Animals Vigil 2020
Marshal Training
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Reflections on Beloved Community and Nuclear Disarmament
What Are You Willing to Die for?
In this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we overcome our fear of death, illness, and discomfort, while still taking appropriate precautions to safeguard our community, family, and ourselves? In this video, talk, and article, which is a part of our Wisdom of Peace Pilgrim training series, we explore how the path of love can help us overcome our fears.
Reframing Problems
How can we relate skillfully to problems so they don’t cause us to become fearful, angry, or overwhelmed? How can take advantage of our problems to nurture our mindful and loving heart? Explore these answers in the video, talk, and article Reframing ProblemsI, which is part of our Wisdom of Peace Pilgrim Training series.
Understanding God (Love)
As a nonsectarian organization, the Boundless Love Project generally avoids God-talk. We recognize that many people have been traumatized and persecuted by religious wisdom traditions, and to make our trainings inclusive, we keep them secular and nonsectarian. But in this post, we strike new ground by sharing with you what nonsectarian wisdom teacher Peace Pilgrim thinks about her direct understanding of God. We hope that both our theist supporters and atheist members find the talk relevant, useful, and inspiring.
Who Was Peace Pilgrim?
Learn about the incredibly courageous and wise wisdom teacher Peace Pilgrim. She was an extraordinary woman who was healthy, vigorous, and joyful as she walked penniless for 28 years. She owned nothing but a few simple items which she carried with her. She walked until given shelter, and fasted until given food. And she received these things without asking for them. She did all this so she could share her message of peace with others, which she summarized like this: “This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
Training Seven: Nonjudgment Day is Near!
Enjoy a loving-kindness meditation and then hear a talk about the mental state of judgment, which is the source of all anger, hatred, and violence. When we understand how judgment is impersonal and false, we can stop being the victim of our judgmental mind, and experience more freedom, peace, love, and joy in all of our relationships.
Training Five: Walk and Talk in the Manner of Love for Love Is Our Fundamental Nature
Training Four (4/4): Who Am I? Using Inquiry to Understand Selflessness
Training Four (3/4): The Story of Nothing (and Everything!)
Commitment Four (2/4): We Are All One & Stages of Awakening
Develop Self-Compassion to Be a Skillful, Effective, and Persistent Activist
As we work to create the beloved community and address systemic injustices, we will encounter the suffering of others, as well as our own suffering. Compassion allows us to meet suffering with an open and connected heart and a balanced mind. Self-compassion allows us to offer to ourselves the empathy, understanding, and kindness we desperately need. The more we respond to suffering with compassion, the more skillful, effective, and sustainable our activism becomes. Learn how in this talk and article.
