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Karma - Personal Yet Shared
Supposedly so-called "my" karma is my karma, and your karma is so-called "Your's." At the same time, my karma is not so-called "just" my...
Dec 11, 20232 min read


Tip of the day - Moving Past Narrow Self Interests
We are none of us alone. We spend so much time and energy arguing over self-serving, narrow interests. Yet we have the power to rise...
Dec 10, 20232 min read


Recovery Tip: Making the Time to Help Others is a Great Way to get out of our Head and stop Picking
I often joke when sharing my recovery story about being "abducted" into happiness by recovering addicts and alcoholics. I don't share it...
Dec 5, 20232 min read


Recovery Tip: Don't Let Money, Power, Property, and Prestige Eclipse Healing
In my experience, prioritizing money over healing and being a healthy person is a golden ticket to suffering. In Twelve Step Recovery,...
Dec 4, 20233 min read


Recovery Tip of the Day: Practicing Self-Forgiveness through Meditation
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...
Dec 2, 20232 min read


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...
Nov 29, 20231 min read


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...
Nov 21, 20231 min read


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...
Nov 20, 20232 min read


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...
Nov 15, 20231 min read


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,...
Nov 13, 20234 min read


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...
Nov 12, 20234 min read


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,...
Nov 6, 20232 min read


Human Kintsugi Zen
In my experience healing from addiction is a present-moment "Recovery operation." Healing from addiction is an exercise in bravery and...
Nov 5, 20232 min read


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...
Oct 31, 20233 min read


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...
Oct 25, 20232 min read


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...
Oct 23, 20233 min read


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...
Oct 20, 20231 min read


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?...
Oct 15, 20232 min read


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...
Oct 9, 20231 min read


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...
Oct 6, 20232 min read
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