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For the last 35 years, in addition to my mindfulness practice, there's been one mantra that in particular,

when I've been caught in stress and reactivity that I'll turn to, and it's probably the most

well-known mantra in Asia, Buddhist Asia, its own money, Padmeh, home.

And this mantra is really one of the bodhisattva path, the path of awakening hearts.

And it's got a lot of different translations, but the one that I find speaks to me the most

is that, oh, money, Padmeh, home, as the lotus of wisdom unfolds, we discover the jewel

of compassion.

That this whole awakening, we wake up and wake up and wake up and discover the radiance

of the heart.

That's the expression of awakening, kindness and compassion.

Says the Dalai Lama, put it, my religion is kindness.

And money, Padmeh, home, is a heart mantra.

So it helps me to collect and come back to that presence where I can feel my heart.

And I think of evolution, it's very clear that we are wired to experience compassion.

That's really the key feature of our species in terms of what's allowed us to continue

to evolve as we have.

And we have, in competition, our survival nervous system that says, I'm all for fight-flight

freeze, things are dangerous, I'm not messing around with that.

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