The Spectrum of Awareness Practices

Last year my family adopted a rescue dog, Bamboo , who has since wreaked havoc on my morning meditation practice. And in some ways my meditation is better than it’s ever been. I am...

I feel more comfortable around people with flaws. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. – Augusten Burroughs. Maybe you know that starfish story? On the morning after a...

It is now so clear that the world is on fire, that we cannot look away. That’s how the Buddha put it 2500 years ago and it is why he proscribed a whole life path....

I recently sat my first 10-day Goenka-style Vipassana retreat and found it gave me new and insightful ways to understand how to transform the mind at the base. Goenka-ji emphasized that there is a...

We start a new year. It is 2020. Perhaps the intensity of  environmental dramas in 2019 finally made clear to many people the vulnerabilities to life on Earth. It might be useful to make...