Just for today... Gift rather than withhold... compassion, positive action, respect, and empathy. Many times I've heard our oldest living...

One addict's ongoing lesson of showing up for our life as an active participant rather than a random spectator. --Dignity and Grace

We have to separate ourselves from our ego filter and the idea of self on which we are stuck. It is true that there is also the small “i”...

From the Zen perspective, thinking and text messaging are very similar. While it's okay to get around the basic terrain of reality, it's...

Before I began my Zen training, I had no idea that failure could be my greatest and most caring teacher and mentor... because it helped...

JFT... if I'm cranky... moody... contentious... caught in power struggles… sarcastic... mean... devaluing myself or others... growling...

In order to be teachable in my healing process connected to the disease of addiction, I need to be reachable; and be prepared to travel...

Samuel Beckett once wrote... “Ever tried... Ever failed... No matter... [Please] Try again... [Please] Fail again... [Please] Fail...

Not sure who needs to hear this today... Here we go! In my direct experience, trying to navigate emotional and/or psychologically charged...

無浅薄生 | Mu Senpaku-Sei Not being frivolous, shallow, flippant, insincere, superficial, senseless, or doing this that are meaningless with...

--We Are None of Us Alone

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -- though the whole...

Zazen is not baking a cookie for ourselves, expecting a tasty treat after we pull it from the oven and let it cool down. That kind of...

Look... Look... Look... Attention! Attention! Attention! Watch! Be alert! Notice... The shadow... the aspect… who walks... always next to...

This is the beginning of a conversation about the scars and wounds we acquire in the process of being human. --Dignity and Grace

The gift of Zazen is that by stilling our body... our attention making conscious contact with Reality rather than thinking... we have the...

What are our expectations, moment to moment? Are they realistic or unrealistic, given who and what we're dealing with? How do I tend to...

Rather than trying to heal generational trauma and unhealthy conditioning by myself, under the fiction that I had to be “Strong,” or I...

What is the nature of Zen? Realizing there's no route to travel to what and where we already are... Buddha! The Universal Identity of...

Snatching defeat from the hands of victory, more than a few squander This profound opportunity. Those caught in the Dreamtime of...