How to Thrive
Excerpt from Zen teacher Norman Fischer's 2014 Baccalaureate address to Stanford graduates "How to Survive Your Promising Life": The...
Right Effort Feels Effortless
“Effortlessness means attention is placed on the object and stays there because there’s nothing trying to draw it away. Then, and only...
Discomfort, Drowsiness, & Frustration
“Until you have at least a moderate degree of stability, ‘mindfulness practice’ will consist mostly of mind-wandering, physical...
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...
What Matters?
"The most important thing we can ever do is realize that everything we do matters." Jane Goodall By "do", I'd...
"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:...
The Thread of Practice
“… after all the years of practicing meditation to retrain the mind to dwell in the present moment, brain disease gradually leaves you...
Head Games vs Direct Engagement
“study without practice is like a ladle in a pot of soup. The ladle is in the pot of soup every day, but it does not know the taste of...
Waking Up?
Retired Sociology prof, Richard Boyle interviewed 11 senior, respected, North American Buddhist teachers about their life's journey....
Family Life as Practice
“… monastic life was easy for (Gil Fronsdal), but marriage and a family pushed, stretched, challenged, and inspired him in ways that were...
