Sister Ocean, Author at Buddhistdoor Global

Procrastination, Determination, and Compassion

Sister Ocean 7 October 2016

I’ve known people who go to a single meditation retreat and when they return home they start sitting an hour in the morning and an

Are You Sure?

Sister Ocean 9 September 2016

Sacca, or truthfulness, is the seventh of the ten paramis, or perfections. We usually think of truthfulness in relation to speech, and this is the basis for

Patience is Power

Sister Ocean 12 August 2016

Water falling, drop by drop, will fill even a large pot.Likewise, the wise (one), accumulating good, little by littleBecomes goodness itself. The Dhammapada (Maitreya 1995, 34)

Fine-tuning Your Practice – Wise Effort

Sister Ocean 15 July 2016

When it comes to developing the fifth parami of viriya—the perfection of effort or energy—the instructions seem simple: the Buddha said to “abandon the unwholesome” and to “develop

Intimacy, Humility, and Stillness: The Perfection of Wisdom

Sister Ocean 17 June 2016

“To study the way of enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is

Wonder: The Heart of Renunciation

Sister Ocean 20 May 2016

I recently had a chance to visit the Wonder* art exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, which comprises two floors filled with large-scale, site-specific

Inner Goodness: The Perfection of Morality

Sister Ocean 22 April 2016

In last month’s column, we explored the first parami (Skt. paramita, or “perfection”) of dana (“generosity”), so we are now ready to explore the second, sila, which translates as “morality” or

The Perfection of Giving

Sister Ocean 24 March 2016

“If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would the stain of selfishness

Driving at Night

Sister Ocean 26 February 2016

The American novelist E. L. Doctorow once wrote that writing is “like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but

Airbrushing our Heroes

Sister Ocean 29 January 2016

Last month, we explored self-acceptance as the ground of making resolutions for the New Year. This month, I’d like to go deeper into self-acceptance by

Know the Ideal, Accept the Actual

Sister Ocean 31 December 2015

The New Year is a natural time for reflection and the setting of resolutions. This is a valuable process, for it’s all too easy to

Enough

Sister Ocean 4 December 2015

Today we began our Winter Retreat, the equivalent of the Rains Retreat, which dates back to the time of the Buddha. In our community, it

REGIONS

Sister Ocean