Commitment to: Depth or Distraction?
“Commitment is a profound decision to take our own journey and spiritual life seriously. We alone must take responsibility for what...
Shifting our Way of Knowing & Being
“When our basic awareness is revealed to be the foundation of both how we know and who we are, we can call it ‘awake awareness.’...
Transcending Fear
“When it is indubitably recognized that your nature and the nature of the absolute are fundamentally the same, indivisible nature, this...
How We Dance
Life is a dance on the razor's edge, between love and fear. Can we dance awake, with an open heart-mind? "The sharp edge of a razor is...
Defensive Reactions to Healthy Evolution
Our fight-flight-freeze reaction pattern to stress also affects how we manage the evolution of our own consciousness ("spirituality" for...
Meditation's Potential
Depth of engagement with meditation varies greatly among individuals. Often initially, there's only a brief, passing intellectual...
"When the Bullet Hits the Bone"
How will I respond when - not if - when I face death? "Hob", a man with a deep, longstanding spiritual practice, responded like this:...
Language & the Filter of Social Reality
Some 200,000 years ago, “we invented language and began to talk. As we talked with each other, we began constructing symbolically...
Waking Up?
Retired Sociology prof, Richard Boyle interviewed 11 senior, respected, North American Buddhist teachers about their life's journey....
The Middle Way
"In Zen, one of the definitions of enlightenment is the harmonization of body and mind. This also means the harmonization of spirit and...
