Not Mud and Not Lotus - Then what
Recovery Tip of the Day: When I first came to recovery, I craved and clung to the idea of going from a version 1.0 to a 2.0 version of...
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- Nov 21
- 1 min
Kyōkan - True Empathy is Enlightenment
Kyōkan (共感)...Intuitive listening...Noticing...Experiencing...In zazen, what is often thought of as "I" quiets down, receding gently...
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- Nov 20
- 2 min
From Pretzel to Principle: Speaking Truth with Kindness
There was a period in my life when I often found myself giving answers I didn't truly believe in, just to keep the peace or avoid...
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- Nov 15
- 1 min
We Practice the Great Way Together
Practiced correctly, meditation can be a powerful medicine to free us from countless illusions. However, practiced incorrectly, one can...
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- Nov 13
- 4 min
QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MIND
INTRODUCTION The nature of human consciousness has remained one of the greatest mysteries and challenges for scientists, philosophers,...
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- Nov 12
- 4 min
Codependency Truth and Awareness Inventory
I wrote this Truth and Awarness Inventory for myself and others I work with in that direction. It could be helpful to others, as it's...
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- Nov 6
- 2 min
Living Beyond our Patterns
In the practice of Zen, 零柄 (Rēhē)... zeroness or being without patterns can be seen as the essential quality of formlessness within form,...
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- Nov 5
- 2 min
Human Kintsugi Zen
In my experience healing from addiction is a present-moment "Recovery operation." Healing from addiction is an exercise in bravery and...
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- Oct 31
- 3 min
Being Without Fear's Dominace - Discovering Love-Based Living
Crawling out of the Dead Sea, My body, Glittering Spring water. 一Zen Master Soen Nakagawa "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear...
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- Oct 25
- 2 min
We Are More than Echoes and Shadows of Self-Doubt
There was a time when I made a home in 'self-doubt.' It was built on the four corners of physical, intellectual, intuitional, and...
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- Oct 23
- 3 min
Discovery My Feelings
One of the practices I encountered early on, when I got interested in Buddhism is known as "Awareness of feeling tone," which is commonly...
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- Oct 20
- 1 min
Developing A Practice That's More Than A Cute Hobby
When the volume level of thought lowers, to somewhere around a .5 to 3...then there arises an authentic chance for freedom...and true...
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- Oct 15
- 2 min
Taking a Vacation from Looking into the Mirror of Self
What emerges when we gaze into a thought mirror, one distorted by ego, rendering a reflection that persistently diverges from reality?...
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- Oct 9
- 1 min
A Coherent Relationship with Our Values
A question we could drop into our meditation practice, contemplate and sit with is: Do I regularly make choices that I later regret or...
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- Oct 6
- 2 min
Listening and Realizing Ryōdō
On the pathway of Zen, we immerse ourselves in a practice of "Ryōdō" (聆道), encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual...
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- Oct 5
- 2 min
Will We Act as a Descendant of Narcissus or Buddha?
In my experience, the inner Jedi of Zazen is the practice of 'That' which appears to be 'observing' watchfully observed by attention;...
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- Oct 2
- 2 min
How the Mind Thinks About Us and Buying Into It Could Be our Biggest Problem
Having an experience of uninterrupted inward peacefulness... completeness... clarity... a feeling of being at True Home... This spiritual...
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- Sep 30
- 2 min
Without Suffering
Anger, depression, anxiety... metabolic, psychological, and emotional dysregulation... the internal thunderstorms of mind. They emerge...
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- Sep 23
- 1 min
Relationality
Yesterday, I had a conversation with a close friend about my effort to be supportive of someone close to me and others I know who...
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- Sep 10
- 1 min
Accidentally Surviving My Thoughts
Left foot, right foot… Left foot, right foot… Left foot, right foot… In my teens… that’s all I could do… as I accidentally survived… the...
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