Fundamental Nature?
All wisdom traditions suggest that humans have two fundamental natures: • the one with which we're all familiar; and • the other most of...
Two Levels of Being
We live our lives at two qualitatively different levels: • an ordinary level based on conditioning - very much like animals, and • an...
What's it all about?
Our consumer culture is almost exclusively about materialism & self-centeredness. This contrasts sharply with deep, meaningful living...
Preparing to See More Clearly
If we're honest, most of us find Zen masters', mystics' & saints' behaviors & writings incomprehensible, counter-cultural, unnatural...
Flowering Universe
"Growth fundamentally means an enlarging and expanding of one's horizons, a growth of one's boundaries, outwardly in perspective &...
Remembering, Coming Back Home
We often judge our life - in this moment - as flawed, wrong, less than ideal. Our buttons get pushed, and we tumble back into the old...
Masks & other Useless Distractions
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because...
Open Awareness Meditation Basics
These supplemental suggestions are most useful after you've arrived at some stability in concentration meditation practice. INTENTION...
Meditation - What? & Why?
“Meditation is a science, the systematic process of training the mind. It is the science of meditation that allows people from all walks...
Entertainment & Nourishment
Below, a brief quote from a fascinating commentary on the respective roles of: • schlock entertainment, which comforts & lulls us to...
