“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha Our true nature is endless peace, beyond space and time, and pure aliveness. And it’s beautiful to explore this truth directly. But if you’re like me, sometimes we have very human experiences of getting caught in old ...Read More
Be Devoted to Silence
“Silence has a music of its own. It is not dead, it is very much alive, it is tremendously alive. In fact, nothing is more alive than silence.” ~Osho I’m going to let you in on a little secret. If you’re interested in cultivating peace and ease in your life, if you’re looking for clarity beyond your conditioned ...Read More
Awakened Qualities—Limitless Compassion
“The more evolved you become, the more compassionate you become, the more you show loving kindness to everything, to the mineral kingdom, to the vegetable kingdom, to the animal kingdom, and to the human kingdom. You show total compassion, loving kindness. You become an embodiment of love simply because everything is ...Read More
Awakened Qualities—Comfort with Not Knowing
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." ~ Socrates Today’s article is the second in our Awakened Qualities series. You can find the first one here. If we drill down to the absolute truth of things, we see that we have no idea what is going to happen. Life just is, and it ...Read More
Awakened Qualities—Enthusiasm
Welcome to the first article in a series called Awakened Qualities. When you reflect on your everyday life experience, what do you notice? How do you meet the moments of your life? Are you stewed in negative thinking and doubt? Does everything frustrate you? Or are you peaceful, easygoing, and prone to ...Read More
Start the Inner Revolution—One Moment at a Time
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” ~Dogen Note: Please see below for upcoming live events. I would love to meet you! Sometimes we make this path of inner peace way more complicated than it needs to be. We think we need to try hard to get rid of the ...Read More
Ending the Inner War of Resisting Your Experience
“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” ~Carl Jung It’s our natural, awakened state to resist nothing. When the illusion of separation is seen through, there’s simply the free flow of experience continually welcoming everything. There is no threat, no fear, and no sense of a person who needs ...Read More
The Story Is Extra
"Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind, Beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thoughts Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsara. Rest in natural great peace." ~Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche Several years ago, I ran into a friend who had just finished a month-long ...Read More
Abandon Hope and Wishful Thinking
“The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… Don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.” ~Rumi I’ll let you in on a little secret. If you’re waiting to be happy or looking forward to the time when ...Read More
Tools for Compulsive Thinking
“The more you think and talk, the more you lose the Way. Cut off all thinking and pass freely anywhere.” ~ Zen Patriarch Seng-T'san In our last post, I invited you to reflect on four insights about thoughts and thinking, and how they apply to your own experience. How did it go? As a refresher, the insights ...Read More
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