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...
Thoughts in Perspective
Thoughts are sometimes described "as writing on water, in essence empty, insubstantial, and transient. I love that. Skywriting is another...
