Many falsely assume that if you get enough money, power, control, stuff, and prestige, we can consume our way into adequacy resulting in...

People attempting to survive on a diet of constant thoughts... thinking... projecting... imagining... fantasizing... resenting......

Here's one Zen monk's answer, just for today.

Renew your Self today, renew Yourself every day, please do not cease renewing your (authentic) Self. 一The Great Learning

Much Appreciation for all the birthday well wishes and commitments to healthy being. I've read and reflected on endless death poems of...

Is it my birthday? Yes. People have been asking me what I want for my Birthday. 1) The simplest thing for me is donating to Mentor Garden...

STEP 9 - We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others. Having taken...

In my direct experience, within the totality of Zen practice and training is gaining access to transformative appreciation… compassion…...

Having conscious contact with self and who we are is having conscious contact with our authentic nature. Please enjoy. --Dignity and Grace

In recovery, people are often encouraged to "Get a relationship with god if you want to stay clean." I don't bother to seek god's will;...

Experience, strength, and practice in and around how I shifted out of fear-based decision-making and discovered a way of making decisions...

Morning share on Buddha’s direction for meeting fear… doubt… worry… anxiety… irritability… disconnectedness, and discontent. 一Happy...

A short morning dharma talk, offering you support for meeting your present moment experience. May it prove useful --We All Share the Same...

These are my notes from a conversation Ruth and I had, after a meeting, in 2013. I added little bullet point symbols in an effort to...

Sharing experience, strength, and practice about living with addiction as the chronic illness of self-obsession and negativity of the...

Functionally… From the perspective of the atom… There's no true difference or distinction between the homeless person, laying on the...

There was a time when I gave away years believing a thought story within my mind. It was me as a bird. I was flopping around on the...

Now! Notice your universal Buddha nature (Loving Presence) —but you are standing on the solid earth. The western scholars who translate...

This post comes with a trigger warning. I’m discussing “Family secrets,” my experiences of trauma that I experienced at the hands of...