We tend to think of mindfulness as something we do with our attention—noticing the breath, the body, the present moment....
Life isn’t waiting for us out there. It’s happening right here, right now. When the soundtrack of our minds is...
At times, the inner landscape can feel like a storm at sea. And yet, beneath the waves, there is always...
Perhaps especially when life seems, as the poet Robert Frost put it, “too much like a pathless wood,” it’s common...
The stories we tell about ourselves can become cages. Mine were lined with perfectionism and survival logic—a looping narrative that...
How do we identify emptiness and use that insight about it to cultivate a new relationship with our laptop, our...
In 2021, for Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I visited a cemetery in Mexico. The gate of...
As a student of Zen for decades, as well as Stoicism for a couple of years, I have been inundated...
Awareness, Love and Compassion are who we are at our essence. Our expressions of love and compassion bring about healing,...
Over the past seven years, the American people have existed in a politically toxic environment. I have been attempting to...
In the past 20 years of practicing mindfulness, I have found that any issue can be addressed if I return...
Love fearlessly A once vulnerable heart that would easily shatter into fragments of chaotic, sharp reactions and heartache now repels...
After such a week, buffeted by events that have shaken the very foundation of women’s rights, I sought out a...
As the seasons have passed, I have observed many changes to the concepts of Buddhism and Zen as they have...
Decades ago, I signed up for a nature trip to the Farallons, a chain of rocky offshore islands and sea...
Depression I’m so depressed. there is something wrong, something wrong, something wrong. Is it that I have no friends?Is it...
In the Perfect Place and Time Suspended perfectly in time,or so it seems,as I sit and reflect that there isno...
It’s an early, overcast mid-October morning. I’m about to go for a walk around the neighbourhood. Before I leave home,...
The Only Moment You Are Alive We long to be everywhere but here. We want to imagine that we will...
What Doesn’t Exist? The past,the future,only now exists. What is now?Breathing, thinking, feeling. What is feeling?A sensation, a thought about...
I. The good and the badare determined by our thoughts, our feelings follow. II. On my movie screen,I acknowledge passing...
I. Each new morning bringsOpportunity to knowThe clouds, sun, rain, snow. II. A bowl of berries,A morning of beginnings,A new...
I. We are where we are,acknowledging what is now,this is our true home. II. Being present meansno conflicts, anxieties,no past,...
A New Year’s Resolution of “Shoulds” and “Shouldn’ts” I live with my “should”I ought to be slim and healthyFlexible and...
