Beware of stupid white men, crafting commentaries of commentaries, without ever having marinated in the eight-one chapters of the Tao Te...

The toughest thing about mastering meditation is making a habit of it. Fortunately neuroscience can offer some clues. We are wired for...

Memories of events long forgotten surfacing during effective meditation are nothing new. But what of similar memories surfacing during...

Some Zen students are advised to simply watch their thoughts while others are admonished “there is NO thinker of the thoughts.” Well,...

It’s not fair! So many good hearted people have been given so much bad advice about the (so called) mystery of NO self. Let’s begin by...

When ten minuets of daily guided meditation fails to deliver the concentration or clarity we desire we must question the purpose and...

There are experiences that belong in memory but which trauma chains to the present (where they can do the most harm) convincing us that...

Suffer from anxiety? Then walking meditation could be what the doctor ordered. Speaking of which, if your anxiety is debilitating and...

Meditation that wrestles with mental stress and physical restlessness is NOT meditation, but rather its analog. Like those pale, red,...

Breathing could be quite like a metronome; especially when it unfolds naturally and spontaneously. Due to one of evolution’s happy...

Have you read the Tao Te Ching? Was the author drunk, a stroke survivor, or was he incredibly wise? The basic thesis of its 81 chapters...

All that could possibly undermine the Buddha’s meditative practices of noticing and letting-go could fall into one of two categories:...

Some dispense cryptic meditation instructions such as “Just Sit!” out of self-importance or mental laziness. But such advice could...

When we sit down to meditate, while parents argue within our hearing, how are we to accept that ugliness? Like a toddler in the surf,...

It is ironic how that which was intended to accelerate the path of enlightenment has muddied waters and troubled hearts. For it has been...

There are some who insist that only mind is real and body (no less circumstance) are mere projections, like that conjured by a magician....

We meditate by using our autonomic nervous system to help us to effortlessly notice our experience (of perception, emotion, intention,...

Ignore the elite or lazy minded! One needs no permission to invoke Medicine Buddha. Nor is he anything other than an architype of our...

A wiser one than I once quipped, “Childhood is that thing you squander the rest of your life trying to overcome.” For the goal of...

If you want to bake cookies that look, smell and taste of grandma’s, then follow her recipe. And if you want to accomplish the Buddha’s...