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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Awakening to the dharma (truth) means waking up to what is true, about waking up to ourselves and the essence of who and what we are. The word awake comes from Old English, awæcnan,...