The merciless sun beat down upon the solitary retreat center. To the teacher’s delight an anemic breeze drifted in through the...

If you are frightened and feel yourself drawn toward superstition, magick, and protection there are many who could help you out, some...

Count Adam strode boldly into the near abandoned meditation center and spied who he assumed was the teacher he’d heard of, his fingers...

DAMNATION: what an excellent tool to frighten those bereft of critical thinking skills making them oh so easy to manipulate. For there is...

There are fear mongers: pessimistic and cruel and eager to warn you of “soul crushing difficulties” upon the Buddha’s path. Don’t believe...

My C-PTSD sucks! The ONLY beneficial thing about it (for me at least) is that allows me to treat my mind as a crash-test-dummy with which...

Depression is dark, depression is heavy. It is a loathsome place that can only be avoided if we understand it. Peer reviewed studies have...

I am about to give you some free advice. It is about doing the right thing… don’t do it (whatever it is) for the wrong reasons: for fear...

Our minds could be as frenetic as a manic squirrel after his third espresso. In “The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King” the...

Would the Buddha recognize his teachings, the way they are practiced today? He warned against ritual, but it has crept in. The story of...

Let us resist the efforts of fools to make of grief a pathology. For healthy mammals (like you and I) grief comes naturally: our...

If you crave feelings of devotion to an entity do not be ashamed. Every healthy mammalian child is wired to feel devotion for their...

In his book, “The Path to Enlightenment” the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet insists that every lama is his own sect. I shall, therefore,...

Some people have extra money. Their savings are padded, their debts are paid, and they wonder, “Should I invest?” That depends on your...

Five centuries elapsed between the assassination of the Buddha and the writing down of the teachings that would be attributed to him....

Doormats could be quite useful, they can keep the mud out of your home, and they could offer a word of welcome to your visitors. As a...

I’ve never cared for the name “panic attack,” it feels judgy; like someone is calling me a coward, or like Nelson (from the Simpsons) is...

Like a dog driven by a lingering scent to gnaw on a bone, devoid of all visible particles of flesh, our mind can return to a problem...

Everybody dies. Although rebirth (or reincarnation) is a popular notion not everyone agrees whether the Buddha mean it literally or...

During meditation I recommend the Buddha’s four Metta meditations and sixteen Anapanasati contemplations. In between your meditation...