If we are chronically short of temper that is NOT a psychological disorder but a psychological symptom of a physiological disorder…

In the great, big, interdependent universe in which we dwell so many things cause us real stress. Things that we have very little...

Before Michael Burnham was a commander, no less in Star Fleet, she was a little girl. A little girl who had ostensibly lost both her...

In Buddhist literature we sometimes stumble upon the word “unborn.” We are often told that is a reference to emptiness. But blindly...

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The Buddha mentioned standing meditation in both his middling and extensive meditation manuals the Satipatthana Sutta and the...

Let’s blend compassion training with our 20-second hand wash…

They came for me, the drug lord’s goons, like a cadre of stormtroopers; they frog-marched me, and dragged me, and all around manhandle

“What do you hope to gain from the study and practice of meditation?” asked the Lama? “I want to be free from neurosis and illness!” the...

In fourth grade my family moved to a new suburb and I was eager to make friends with all the kids on the Block…

Gather my fellow nerd-lings around the campfire of the mind and let us consider the fall of Emperor Palpatine…

It approaches! A storm has come to my corner of Southern California and from within our deliciously heated apartment I gaze out our...

A Mystery! On this planet there are so many beautiful Buddhist statues, and Buddhist temples, and so many beautiful men and women who...

The arrogant meditation student was as foolish as he was enthusiastic. One day he boasted to his teacher “I don’t care if anyone else pr

I discovered the music of Simon and Garfunkel during a family road trip while I was still in junior high school. Recall some of the...

While attending university I found myself in an authoritative, fundamentalist, religious organization. And, like most facets of...

Even though he was my junior high school teacher and I was his student I considered him my friend. When he invited my sister to his...