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...
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...
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...
Transcending Fear
“When it is indubitably recognized that your nature and the nature of the absolute are fundamentally the same, indivisible nature, this...
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...
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...
