After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

Freedom to Make Mistakes

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Step out. Fly. It is never too late to start over. In this way you learn what is called...

The Zen of an Aching Heart

Sometimes suffering the losses and the unexpected betrayals and breakups that befall each of us becomes where we grow deepest in our capacity to lead...

The Sacredness of Form

“Teach us to care and not to care.” ~T.S. Elliot  If you tell a Zen master everything is like a dream, she will take her...

Vast Silence and Illumination (Part Two)

(Read Part One: Vast Silence and Illumination) Buddhist psychology offers a systematic training to open the mystical perspective by explaining how to develop states of...

Vast Silence and Illumination

Jhana states are two sets of stable states of absorption concentration and insight concentration outlined in Buddhist psychology.  These states are so central to the...