Our "Self" - Both Sides
Our untrained, "everyday mind" constantly fabricates & maintains a "conceptual self", "small self" or "ego." When not distracted by this...
Shifting
“Most of us have spent much of our lives working on the project of improving and developing our separate sense of self in order to...
Here, Now AND Far Away
The story we tell ourselves about the world & ourselves is how we perceive & understand these. Though we each contribute some unique...
What is "Normal" Development?
We can refer to what is developing or maturing as a noun: character or ego, or instead use adjectives: psychosocial or...
What If Questions
What if we took our many opinions about all sorts of things FAR less seriously than we do now? What if we took our many preferences - our...
Resilience, Identity, & Constant Change
“from the field of ecology … resilience is understood as the ability to absorb disturbance and still retain basic function and structure,...
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...
No Self? What about "I", "me", & "mine"?
“Twenty-six hundred years (ago) … a spoiled young trust-funder, Prince Shakyamuni Gautama – the eventual Buddha, or ‘awakened one’ –...
Essence of Practice
Zen stories always intrigued me - I started reading them when I was 18. Thirty years later, I finally started to practice meditation -...
