HeyJaredThe Empty Cup
An empty cup is not blankness; it’s availability. It is the willingness to look more closely at our assumptions, to meet life in a relaxed manner with an open heart. Open to accepting the present moment as it is.
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You won't be staying (opens the original)
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Feelings can be astonishingly convincing. When despair comes, it says: this is how things are. When loneliness comes, it says: I am alone. When fear comes, it says: this will never change. But intensity is not permanence. In this episode of The Empty Cup , we explore the strange mercy of impermanence: not only does everything we love change, but suffering changes too. Sometimes we don’t need to fix a painful feeling or argue with it. We may only need to remember: I know something about you. You
The Kindness of Limits (opens the original)
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We often think kindness means saying yes, giving more, staying longer, being endlessly available. But sometimes a limit is not the opposite of compassion. It is what allows compassion to remain genuine. In this episode of The Empty Cup , we explore the delicate balance between caring for others and not disappearing from the equation ourselves — and how a clear “no” can sometimes be kinder than a resentful “yes.” Perhaps wisdom is not choosing between ourselves and others, but learning how care c
Give happiness a chance (opens the original)
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Unhappiness can become a habit. Not because life is always difficult, but because the mind can become so accustomed to noticing what is wrong that, eventually, it keeps finding reasons to suffer even when circumstances have changed. In this episode of The Empty Cup , we explore how habits of perception shape our experience — and how, without denying pain or pretending everything is wonderful, we can gently begin to notice what else is true. Sometimes happiness is already there. We just have to g
The extraordinary ordinariness of things (opens the original)
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We spend so much of our lives waiting for something extraordinary to happen—for love, awakening, purpose, or simply the feeling that this is it . Meanwhile, life keeps arriving in remarkably ordinary forms: a conversation, a difficult moment, light through a window, a cup, a spoon. What if the extraordinary isn't somewhere else? What if we simply keep overlooking it because it doesn't look the way we imagined? In this episode of The Empty Cup , we explore what happens when we stop asking reality
Everything Changes... (opens the original)
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Everything changes. Our bodies. Our relationships. Our thoughts. Our emotions. Every moment is born, unfolds, and disappears. And yet… Is there something that never changes? In this episode of The Empty Cup , we explore one of the great paradoxes of the Buddhist tradition: how impermanence and timelessness are not opposites, but two inseparable aspects of reality. A reflection on uncertainty, meditation, the confidence of the View, and the quiet fearlessness that gradually emerges when we discov
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