Who Am I?
When a student complains about suffering to a Zen teacher, the student may be asked "WHO is suffering?" This may cause the student to...
Our "Self" - Both Sides
Our untrained, "everyday mind" constantly fabricates & maintains a "conceptual self", "small self" or "ego." When not distracted by this...
Renunciation & Meditation
“All of us … have sizeable egos. The ‘me’ and ‘mine’ syndrome and ‘if you please, I’ll keep it and you stay out’ attitudes create all the...
Pure Awareness & Thinking
Our usual, unconscious, automatic identification with our thought-world ie cognitive fusion keeps us a step removed from real-time,...
Over Thinking?
The untrained mind doggedly, compulsively returns to a few favourite themes. The up (adaptive) side: these "stories of me" serve to...
What Lies Beneath our Thick Armour?
It can take a long time, or perhaps some of us may never realize the extent to which we've hardened ourselves to the outside world. We...