Our physical needs are real. We need food, and shelter, and clothing. BUT let not those needs drive us to greed, or coercion, or...

The power of contemplating a Buddhist rhetorical question lies NOT in striving to puzzle out its answer as it if were some great...

It was the Buddha who developed mindfulness meditation and who, surveying the multitude of objects: external and internal...

Imagine being told in the innocence and idealism of your youth that there was a secret Buddhism taught not in books but passed down...

From the dharma point of View, from the point of view of mindfulness and wisdom we could think of our mind as like a hurricane and that...

What was the Buddha? Was he a God, an avatar of Vishnu masquerading as a man; as so many Hindus claim? I hope NOT for that could...,

Let us revisit our friend the movie patron. He has purchased his ticket, and his snack, and his beverage, and has taken his...

Come, let us explore the neurology of scarcity. Our midbrains are wired to give and receive without expectation of reciprocity...

Standing at a gnome-like five foot eight I am a man forever looking up to his peers.

In Star Trek, the original series, they would often place a clear filter over the lens and smear it with Vaseline to create an optical...

The Buddha taught that the fruit of mastering the four bases of mindfulness and the seven enlightenment factors is two fold...

watching Doctor McCoy’s hysterics as he scurried about a twentieth century hospital raging at the barbarism and superstition at play... He

All I intend to communicate in this open letter pertains to courtesy and sanity. If you desire to participate in these webinars...

A good hearted individual being harangued by their parents to seek marriage, when they desired none. sought my guidance....

Do not loose heart for although it could take me more than an hour...

We could recall the duel in “Attack of the Clones” between Count Dooku and Obi Wan Kenobi; observing the delight with which Count Dooku

Many years ago I moved to a very inexpensive little apartment complex with not one but two angry fundamentalists...

It was 1971 and I was in first, or second grade, and a class mate’s mother had taken many of us to see “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate

The Tao Te Ching is the world’s most read book second only to the Bible. In it we read of a division in two or a dichotomy…

What if fear was NOT an indictment? What if fear was a natural function of our brainstem? What if the ideal contemplative response...