The great Buddhist teacher, Bodhidharma, cautioned that striving was suffering. What if the enlightenment the Buddha offered was simply...

It is a dark irony that the metaphors created by good hearted teachers, with the intention of benefitting their befuddled students have...

Mindfulness and meditation (together) make up twenty-five percent of the Buddha’s eight-fold path. But how could that relate to the...

In the early 1980’s Rush sang, “…humiliation, the underlying fear…”. Wanna know a secret? Fear of scorn is baked into the cake of what it...

Not all meditation teachers are created equal. Some of them are wise, many are foolish, and some are downright cruel: convincing the...

Depressive anxiety disorder is a thief, robbing us of time, and joy, and even hope; for who’s to say that it couldn’t return? It is...

There are many meditation teachers: ordained, or not, affiliated, or independent, carbon copies, or self-styled, greedy, or generous,...

I am going to tell you a secret about the Tao Te Ching. It is its own best commentary. But don’t take my word for it, put it to the test....

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

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

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

Morpheus explained “…the mind cannot exist without the body…” nor can panic attacks. Our triggers are a stew: both physical and mental....

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...

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...

Elitist meditation teachers (not all of them villains, most of them fools) have convinced the unwashed masses that meditation consists of...

Why is it that when neuroscientists hook meditation “masters” to their monitors they find that although these teachers access their...

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

Actively striving to examine our thoughts is like taking a long hot bath when the bar of soap has gotten so soft, that when our fingers...

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