No Self? What about "I", "me", & "mine"?
“Twenty-six hundred years (ago) … a spoiled young trust-funder, Prince Shakyamuni Gautama – the eventual Buddha, or ‘awakened one’ –...
Essence of Practice
Zen stories always intrigued me - I started reading them when I was 18. Thirty years later, I finally started to practice meditation -...
Yet Another Definition of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a natural, but underdeveloped, universal human capacity to see more clearly, & as a natural result, relate with greater...
Processing in Zen
“You deal with your shit in Zen by sitting with it. By breathing right into it. You don’t try to ignore it with pleasant thoughts or...
Zen & MBSR
Below is part of the introduction to an interesting book about one man's early experience in a Zen monastery. Mindfulness-based Stress...
Dignified Physical AND Mental Posture
“I used to suffer terribly about my meditation practice, because I was completely certain that it was never good enough – and probably it...
Direction of Attention
"Wherever you are, just try being the host. You will always be at home." Linji Yixuan Peace & happiness come...
Practicing Improves Performance
Wow! That's probably not a new concept for you, and yet ... How many decades have you spent admiring things you can't now (or ever will...
Is Awareness Enough?
“Awareness in and of itself is curative.” Fritz Perls, psychiatrist, co-founder of Gestalt therapy. But "awareness" that's truly curative...
At Home Feeling
Most of us, most of the time, fit one of 3 default self-centered ways of doing: 1) acquisitive 2) aversive 3) confused. Fear, anger, or...
