Sturgeon’s law reminds us that 90% of everything sucks, but not in the fun, tingly way. This includes humanity, including those who fancy...

How do we transcend the stress’ control over our choices, utterances, and deeds? The Buddha’s eight fold path. How do we transform our...

Let us wrest zazen from the grasp of the elitist and the superstitious. Our warm up is the Heart Sutra and our cool down is the...

Perhaps you are like me, and also were raised where contemplatives in magazines, movies, and art work were depicted as sitting with their...

Repressing our thoughts, memories, and feelings during meditation is never a good thing. It is easy to do. And we don’t even have to do...

I love Kung Fu Hustle, have you seen it? In the final reel of the film the protagonist has found his inner martial arts master and as...

“Ego-death” is a popular term in the literature extoling the benefits of DMT, but what does it mean? Like many compound metaphors it is...

Let’s contrast concentration with mindfulness. Numerous authors have recorded their misadventures, squandering months in earnest...

Every thought suppressed is an opportunity for insight, lost! But how do contemplatives find themselves in this predicament?...

Pseudo-spiritual hacks mercilessly juggle the terms mindfulness and meditation confusing everyone. Neuroscience could offer some great...

Obsessive compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder could be torture. So it is utterly understandable that those who suffer...

The Buddha dropped a hint in the Anapanasati Sutta first with the phrase, “…true knowledge and liberation…” and then with “…coalescence...

In junior high my companions would regale each other with tales of Bruce Lee. Each story a more fanciful departure from the truth. The...

Fear saved our ancestor’s lives many times over. But in our world (safe and sanitized) it often does more harm than good. After a...

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

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

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

The merciless sun beat down upon the solitary retreat center. To the teacher’s delight an anemic breeze drifted in through the...

There are brave men and women who put themselves in harm’s way, so we don’t have to. And many of these military folk must run on a daily...