Direct Knowing, True Intimacy
The direct unmediated felt experience of: • hugging someone we love, • your grandchild snuggling up to you while reading them a story, •...
Communication
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it." Isadora Duncan “Knowledge is only rumor until it is in...
Striving?
Our typical hurried impatience to wrap each project up, then quickly move on to the next, simply doesn't work in meditation. Meditation...
Over Thinking?
The untrained mind doggedly, compulsively returns to a few favourite themes. The up (adaptive) side: these "stories of me" serve to...
Meditation is Already Happening
“… meditation is actually something that’s already happening within us. There’s a natural state of stillness and quiet that’s already a...
Thinking of Meditation as a "Should"
A humourous motivational speaker used to talk about "shoulding all over ourselves" - and we do, don't we? We tend to be harshly critical...
Uncluttering
“Seung Sahn’s teaching style consisted of raising one impenetrable question after another. The purpose was to surprise our rational,...
Waking Up?
Retired Sociology prof, Richard Boyle interviewed 11 senior, respected, North American Buddhist teachers about their life's journey....
