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

It’s not fair! So many good hearted people have been given so much bad advice about the (so called) mystery of NO self. Let’s begin by...

Both devotion (to a corporeal or heavenly parent) and love (for one’s fellow beings) could generate concentric waves of heart bliss....

When the medical arts are exhausted, and only tension and trauma remain, this meditation could help. Making use of perceptive...

Who can forget the big reveal from the 2005 film “Serenity,” where we learn that the involuntarily drugged denizens of the planet (which...

Of course we’re stressed. Our cruel society masquerades as a meritocracy where trolls search for reasons to revile us while we strive to...

A wiser one than I once quipped, “Childhood is that thing you squander the rest of your life trying to overcome.” For the goal of...

How do we Keep the Mind Calm? We don’t. For a common theme of the 81 chapters of the Dao De Jing is that the path of the sage is NOT to...

Why meditate? Ask a biologist (they’ll tell you) we’re subjected to stressors: circumstantial, physical, interpersonal, and mental. The...

The air is crisp, daylight savings time has come to an end, and a number of men across the globe have chosen celibacy for the entirety of...

The prose of the Tao Te Ching is as compelling as it is opaque. In daily life, how is one to apply it: spontaneously, effortlessly, and...

Yes, life is messy. And surveying the seemingly insurmountable stressors endured by ourselves and our loved ones could fuel our...

Horrible teachers (some malicious, others lazy minded) have muddied the waters of meditation; concocting or passing on expectations of...

When viewing the twentieth passage of the Tao Te Ching through the lens of our preconceptions it could feel like we are being told to go...

Those new to Buddhism sometimes feel drawn to set up an altar. Some set offerings upon them, some bow before them, but what did the...

Tapping into our inner Hunter S. Thompson, let’s explore the irony displayed in contemporary Jhana training: where we indulge our...

Yes, Buddhist temples could seem enchanting with the architecture, chanting, shaved heads, and robes. But what has that to do with the...

Photographs in Yoga Journal display models in the lotus position with blissful expressions on their beautiful faces. A promise is...

The Tao Te Ching is rather insistent about going with the flow, but what is that? When we are in the zone, our choices, utterances, and...

In psychology 101 I read of aversion, and later I experienced it viscerally (care of miracle whip and food poisoning). Train too hard in...