do you have to meditate every day?
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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 they are, rather than struggling with a goal? I find that newer students don’t ask this question much in their meditation groups, fearing, perhaps, that they might be the only ones with this…

coming home
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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 are settling in to a new house. As I get older, moving feels more emotional, more gut-wrenching. Witnessing our old home slowly coming apart, with carefully chosen bits going into carefully chosen…