Breaking up sucks! Interpersonally it is excruciating, not to mention the exhausting process of apartment hunting, packing, and moving....

For a good many millennia human culture (and the spiritual systems that drive it) have been belief oriented. Perhaps you’ve heard the...

The three most popular meditation manuals attributed to the Buddha are the: 1 A-na-pa-na-sa-ti, 2 ...

Brainstorms: a treasure from the muses – subtle or coarse, gentle or turbulent, they could function as our golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s...

Leave it to the Germans to grotesquely describe that Sugar Ray song, left on auto-repeat, in the CD player of your mind as an “Earworm.”...

Like the Cordyceps infiltrating hosts on HBO’s “The Last of Us,” Zen has been infiltrated by folks who are rigid, fearful, controlling,...

There is a myth (popular and destructive) that in order to become a suitable vessel for contemplation one most first master the technique...

As I child I watched so many episodes of “Casper the Friendly Ghost,” that now, as doddering fifty-seven year-old I can still recall some...

There we are, just minding our own business, sitting cross-legged upon our meditation cushion, when all of a sudden, out of the blue, we...

Those who staunchly believe, “the more difficult the technique more effective it must be,” tend to disapprove of meditative slogans....

Rumination is exhausting with its endless examination and reexamination of a problem! Let’s sustainably harness its energy. During your...

You’re sitting upon your meditation cushion, coordinating the passive observation of your perceptions, emotions, thoughts, memories and...

The mere philosophy of NON-duality could strike one as being: flaccid, worthless, and weak. For its power to transform us lays in neither...

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

He told me of the more than nine years he spent on meditative retreat, and of his frustrated search to receive the teachings for a very...

If you are new to meditation you may have been erroneously taught that it is all about forging peace THROUGH the subjugation of our...

One of the many fringe benefits of a healthy meditation practice is finding ourselves resting in the midpoint between the two toxic...

We perch upon our meditation cushions out of hunger for peace and bliss, NOT because we yearn for greater nervousness. But sometimes that...

Visit with PhD candidates and, by far and in large, you will find folks who have figuratively crawled up into their heads, hiding from...

Fear can be exciting in VERY small amounts and for VERY short periods of time. But when it feels like you’re having a damn heart attack...