When the Ground Gives Way, Wisdom Appears

Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project.

What is true wisdom?

If you’re like most of us, you might imagine wisdom as something you accumulate, understand, or finally arrive at. But in the Buddhist tradition, wisdom, the sixth paramita, isn’t something you do or achieve. It’s something that unfolds when we practice staying with our lives as they actually are.

In the Building a Mindful New Year program, we’ll explore wisdom not as an abstract ideal, but as a lived, embodied practice. Wisdom arises when generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, and meditative absorption come together. It shows up as the ability to stay present through confusion, grief, relief, and joy, without needing experience to resolve or make sense.

This is not about fixing ourselves or transcending ordinary life. It’s about learning how to remain with it. Again and again.

On the final day of the program, we turn toward wisdom directly, including teachings on meditative absorption and how insight naturally emerges from sustained practice. Rather than offering answers, wisdom invites us into a deeper relationship with reality.

Crystal Gandrud will guide us deeper into the paramita of wisdom. Crystal is a writer, installation artist, and editor based in London. She is the co-founder of Lionheart Press, dedicated to publishing modern dharma that exists within an ancient lineage and has practiced Tantric Buddhism for over twenty years, teaching meditation for fifteen. Her work brings clarity, creativity, and grounded energy to the path of practice.

If you’re longing for a way to meet the new year with honesty, steadiness, and depth, this program is an invitation.

You can still jump into the Building a Mindful New Year program and gain access to tall of the talks. The program ends on December 31.

Learn more and register here.

It would be great to see you there.

Love,
Susan

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