“Be a lamp unto yourself.” – Buddha
In our exploration of the nature of truth, how we go about investigating is as important as what we discover.
Category: inquiry
A little Lao Tzu for you!
This week I taught Rick Hanson’s meditation group the first three of the series of six valuable questions we’ve been
Inquiry Series: Question #5
In this inquiry series, we’ve practiced using questions that help us deal skillfully with what arises in our experience: What
Cultivating with the core insights
In exploring the question What am I cultivating here? we have been working with a gardening analogy. In this analogy
Cultivating your chosen quality with wise inquiry
If you did last week’s exercise, then hopefully you chose one quality that you feel needs cultivation right now. (If
The Seed Catalog
As we continue our exploration of the valuable question ‘What am I cultivating here?’, wouldn’t it be nice to have
Wise cultivation sometimes calls for transplanting!
I was traveling this week so there was no class. Still wisdom teachings are everywhere if we are present to
Inquiry Series: Valuable Question #4
The first three questions in this series — What is my intention here? What am I afraid of? and Is
Inquiry Series: Pause in place and set a kinder pace
Over the past weeks we have been looking at three valuable questions — What is my intention here? What am
Inquiry Series: Valuable Question #3: Is what I am telling myself true?
In this series on self-inquiry, we have been posing powerful questions like ‘What is my intention here?’ and ‘What am
