When great loss comes, the heart needs to grieve. We need to find a way to honor and tend our grief, to respect its deep…
This human world is sometimes called the desire realm because so much of it runs on desire and wanting. How to relate wisely with desire…
If you understand—things are just as they are. If you do not understand—things are just as they are. —Zen saying From the universal perspective, all…
We revisit the adventure from the Upanishads of Nachiketa and his odyssey to meet with the Lord of Death. We look at the wisdom to…
Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small…
Letting go of our attachment and desire for control opens us to the vastness that this incarnation has to offer. How do we go about…
When times are uncertain, difficult, fearful, full of change, they become the perfect place to deepen the practice of awakening. After viewing the elections….whatever your…
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification. We can begin to sense and observe the…
Patience has a certain impatience built into it. In Zen the word is “constancy.” Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what…
In embracing our humanity, we move into the pure awareness of our own true nature, learning to live wisely and discovering freedom and compassion regardless…
Read Part One: Free From Views Such listening is never more powerful than when we sit face to face with the mystery of death.