An Experience is Not The Point

We might imagine that the Dharma points eventually to a profound experience (s) to transform our life. There is the potential to have a wide ranges of experiences. These include childhood, emotional, secular, religious,...

Recently I completed a 10 day fundraising walk in Palestine. Along with delightful nature and lovely connections, there were plenty of difficult moments; the weather went from too wet to too hot; my backpack...

In Thailand, here’s how hunters capture monkeys: They hollow out a coconut through a small hole about the size of a monkey’s hand when outstretched. They then put a banana inside the coconut hole...

What wakes up curiousity? What opens our mind and heart? What makes us willing to rearrange our lives, if necessary, to discover for ourselves what is real? And, then, what is our way to...

The Buddha taught that holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Most of us have...

As I look at my watch and realize that I had used 8 hours (18,000 seconds) for sleeping of the 86,400 seconds that make up my 24-hour day, I realize that I have 68,400...

So many people today are asking themselves: “How can I make an impact in a time of such adversity?”  “How can I contribute to positive change in our world?” “How can I stay rooted...

We are in a race between fear and consciousness. We live in strange times unlike any I’ve seen before in my lifetime. Never before, in my country and other developed countries, have forces of...

Building community can seem like a worthy purpose, a high aspiration, even a wholesome ideal. But the teachings of the Buddha invite us into experiencing all of that and much more. The Dharma invites...

Is it possible to create New Year’s intentions from the recognition of our wholeness, rather than as an attempt to improve or fix ourselves? When our attention is identified with the conditioned mind we...