Spiritual Awakening is found in the here and now. In the Zen tradition they say, “After the ecstasy, the laundry.” Spiritual maturity manifests itself in…
The karmic patterns that we create through our hearts transcend the limitations of time and space. To awaken the heart of compassion and wisdom in…
Systematic depictions of spiritual stages can make it seem as if the path is simple, linear, and progressive, as if spiritual life were a step-by-step…
“No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.” ~Meister Eckhart Milarepa, the most famous saint in…
In meditation and in our spiritual life there grows a kind of trust in our capacity to open, to change, and to transform no matter…
(Read Part One: Natural Joy) When I returned to the United States and began to teach, my colleagues and I tended to emphasize the…
“What we’re looking for is where we are.” Dharma speaks to the ways in which we choose to navigate the uncertainty of our time on…
A spacious walk through the shifts of identity that often occur as we move from the smaller sense of self into that place of loving…
What attitude can we carry into a world of conflict and difficulty that will allow us to treasure and fully embody the work we do…
