Relief – In This Very Moment, In This Very Breath

We just returned from sitting a wonderful week-long retreat to find two rooms of our small monastery flooded. With workers coming in, ripping up flooring and carpeting, tearing apart the kitchen and guest room/library,...

Most of us live in cultures that are super busy and goal directed. In our meditation life, that same goal-directed energy is always searching for a special experience that’s higher, better, different from what’s...

These days as I teach natural awareness practice, I’m encouraging meditators to relax the amount of effort they make in their meditation to access a more natural, spacious, effortless awareness. A common concern of...