Those who view the world through a lens of rigidity, fear, and control make terrible meditation teachers; promising their students that...

Have you read the Tao Te Ching? Was the author drunk, a stroke survivor, or was he incredibly wise? The basic thesis of its 81 chapters...

Earth has been graced with luminaries such as Lao Tzu, Gautama, and Jesus. They lived from empathy and were: flexible, loving,...

All that could possibly undermine the Buddha’s meditative practices of noticing and letting-go could fall into one of two categories:...

Some dispense cryptic meditation instructions such as “Just Sit!” out of self-importance or mental laziness. But such advice could...

The rigid and cruel could hurl weighty accusations of laziness when they see our eyes close, and head nod as we sit in meditation. What...

I am NOT here to condemn or praise marijuana. But if you sincerely feel you are addicted, to your detriment, and hunger for release then...

When we sit down to meditate, while parents argue within our hearing, how are we to accept that ugliness? Like a toddler in the surf,...

It is ironic how that which was intended to accelerate the path of enlightenment has muddied waters and troubled hearts. For it has been...

There are some who insist that only mind is real and body (no less circumstance) are mere projections, like that conjured by a magician....

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

We meditate by using our autonomic nervous system to help us to effortlessly notice our experience (of perception, emotion, intention,...

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...

Elitist meditation teachers (not all of them villains, most of them fools) have convinced the unwashed masses that meditation consists of...

Why is it that when neuroscientists hook meditation “masters” to their monitors they find that although these teachers access their...

Ignore the elite or lazy minded! One needs no permission to invoke Medicine Buddha. Nor is he anything other than an architype of our...

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 could the Dao allow Covid to globally proliferate, mutate, kill, and disable? Simple, it is not a celestial Santa Clause come to...