Mud and Radiance: a Whole Life Individual and Relational Detox Program
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....
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Understanding Our Mind: Healing Blocks of Suffering in the Individual and Collective Consciousness
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...
The Power of a New Year’s Resolution
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...
Practice as Preparation for Times Ahead
This has been a really challenging year, a year when the full weight of our climate and eco catastrophe finally landed within us and within the collective. Even so, let us take heart that...
Not Only Are You Not Broken, You Are Not That Which Is Breakable
It can be easy to forget this. In a progressive path approach to practice, we sometimes fall for the story that we are broken, but if we only practice diligently enough, we can be...
Let’s Talk about Meditation
Meditation is part of the three-fold path that breaks down into Right Effort, Right Concentration and Right Mindfulness, three of the limbs of the eight-fold path. But before we can begin to dip our...
Pathways to Happiness
As human beings we are incredibly sensitive organisms. In any given moment there are many things happening in our experience. And yet the majority go unnoticed. Right now, take some moments to tune into...
Depth of Spiritual Practice – Even in a Chaotic World
Many people come to me with hopes that I can teach them practices that will immediately alleviate their stress and anxiety. Then, when I ask them to describe their daily lives, I am shocked...
The Delusion of Separateness
There seems to be a sense of disorientation, disjointedness and overall running around in circles happening in the world today. And for some reason, many of us think that we’re the only ones who...
Soothing Anxiety
Anxiety is a completely natural human emotion. It’s our nervous system’s response to uncertainty, mild threat, or stress. It’s aim is heighten our senses and support us to discern how to create more safety....