Unveiling :: Sensing the sixth element
The final of the Six Element Meditation Series, a fascinating exploration of the Buddha’s most important teachings, with a guided meditation and poems.
Tag: meditation
Unveiling :: Sensing the air element
On retreat at Spirit Rock in the dark of an autumn morning, I woke to the ring of the bell
Unveiling :: Sensing the fire element
The third in a series of meditations on the elements, this deep exploration of fire gives a powerful sense of aliveness and interconnection.
Unveiling :: Cultivating Peace
When we’re fighting each other, it’s because we can’t see each other as intrinsically interconnected expressions of life. Instead, we focus on our perceived differences and weave threads of assumptions, opinions, projections, stereotypes, etc. into thought veils that blind us.
You can focus like Siddhartha under the ficus
Twenty-six hundred years ago, under a tree, a seeker named Siddhartha Gautama sat in meditation, determined not to stop meditating
Dharma, dharma everywhere — even in my just published short story!
Yay! My short story The Homecoming is in the Fall 2018 issue of the Birdland Journal, an online publication that celebrates
Imagine
Imagine those twelve Thai boys meditating in a cave not knowing when or if they would be rescued. Now imagine
In the vortex of the Eight Worldly Winds
Whatever is going on in your life right now, if you really pay attention, you will see that it is
Meditation: Chore or Pleasure?
Developing a meditation practice may feel like another chore to do, like taking out the garbage or cleaning the kitchen.
This too shall pass.
Despair is in the air this season, coming to the end of a year full of disasters, nuclear brinkmanship and
