In my experience, one of the gifts of long-term recovery isn't necessarily amassing clean-time, for the sake of having clean time. Clean...

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...

Kyōkan (共感)...Intuitive listening...Noticing...Experiencing...In zazen, what is often thought of as "I" quiets down, receding gently...

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...

Practiced correctly, meditation can be a powerful medicine to free us from countless illusions. However, practiced incorrectly, one can...

INTRODUCTION The nature of human consciousness has remained one of the greatest mysteries and challenges for scientists, philosophers,...

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...

In the practice of Zen, 零柄 (Rēhē)... zeroness or being without patterns can be seen as the essential quality of formlessness within form,...

In my experience healing from addiction is a present-moment "Recovery operation." Healing from addiction is an exercise in bravery and...

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...

There was a time when I made a home in 'self-doubt.' It was built on the four corners of physical, intellectual, intuitional, and...

One of the practices I encountered early on, when I got interested in Buddhism is known as "Awareness of feeling tone," which is commonly...

When the volume level of thought lowers, to somewhere around a .5 to 3...then there arises an authentic chance for freedom...and true...

What emerges when we gaze into a thought mirror, one distorted by ego, rendering a reflection that persistently diverges from reality?...

A question we could drop into our meditation practice, contemplate and sit with is: Do I regularly make choices that I later regret or...

On the pathway of Zen, we immerse ourselves in a practice of "Ryōdō" (聆道), encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual...

In my experience, the inner Jedi of Zazen is the practice of 'That' which appears to be 'observing' watchfully observed by attention;...

Having an experience of uninterrupted inward peacefulness... completeness... clarity... a feeling of being at True Home... This spiritual...

Anger, depression, anxiety... metabolic, psychological, and emotional dysregulation... the internal thunderstorms of mind. They emerge...

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...