Buddhist insight in our day to day life
We can experience deep Buddhist insight by examining our present moment experience of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking. This mind…
a keener love of simplicity
Meditation helps us put down the baggage we carry around. Traveling lightly, we feel airborne. We move into a keener love of…
you can’t win if you don’t play
Experiment infusing your meditation time with playful qualities such as curiosity, lightness, awe, and child-like delight in the present moment’s unfolding. The…
knee pain nirvana
If we get uptight about feeling uncomfortabe in meditation, just remember this simple instruction- give careful and kind attention to whatever arises….
not a caravan of despair
Do you have a fear of missing out on a more spiritual experience doing a mountain of laundry, washing a sinkful of…
don’t let the mind become a lonely hunter
You have all you need. The bounty is already laid out at your doorstep. (The title here steals from Carson McCuller’s remarkable…
monkey mind, crabby mind
Lately, I’ve been dealing with a relative of monkey mind I am calling crabby mind. They may be far apart on the…
a contemplative life
What makes the difference in the contemplative life are the qualities of heart we bring to our everyday experiences. When asked the…
when is the best time to meditate?
… when the mind complains it does NOT want to meditate, says the Buddhist monk U Tejaniya I’m going to assume that…
meditate every day? yes, you can!
We have been practicing the opposite of what meditation asks of us for so many years, no wonder it is so hard…
in praise of maladjustment
Who is maladjusted? It is someone who lost the ability to be surprised. We must re-learn how to be surprised. Alice Walker…
do you have to meditate every day?
Do you have to meditate every day? The question really should be can I be happily present with things just as…
does meditation help with patience?
I think so, but the real question is how to develop patience with the meditation process itself. The only way to fail…
mindful dishwashing
When I do catch the mind moment, in mindful dishwashing, the most ordinary things take on inexpressible beauty. A few folks have…
just try your best
Meditation is not easy, I get it. There are aches and pains in the body, the mind gets restless, and the breath…
coming home
No matter how nice our home is, it is still “of the of world,” as my Buddhist teachers in Asia would say. We…
a moveable monastery
The contemplative life benefits from periodic self-reflection We meditate for many different reasons. Often, our original motivations morph as we move forward…
why I stopped making new year’s resolutions
I decided to not make any new year’s resolutions. Well, except maybe one. I resolve to just be myself. I always felt…
