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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


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;...
Oct 5, 20232 min read


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...
Oct 2, 20232 min read


Without Suffering
Anger, depression, anxiety... metabolic, psychological, and emotional dysregulation... the internal thunderstorms of mind. They emerge...
Sep 30, 20232 min read


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...
Sep 23, 20231 min read


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...
Sep 10, 20231 min read


Do You Have It
Zen Master Engo Kokugon ascended the high seat and said... “The heat of a fire cannot compare with the heat of the sun. The cold wind...
Sep 6, 20231 min read


Affirming Confidence in Universal Loving Presence
The Boundless Way is not difficult: Just don’t pick and choose. Stop holding on to all yes and no, And The Boundless Way is unobstructed....
Aug 29, 20231 min read


Choosing Love Over Indifference
We have made a wasteland of ourselves... society... and, by extension, the world. Being the apex predator on our planet, and humans...
Aug 24, 20232 min read


Before I Am Dead
Reflect deeply in your heart on the ceaseless transformation of the world. It is not a matter of meditating using some provisional method...
Aug 22, 20231 min read


Healing from the Addiction to Insecurity and Fear
Dharma (法) refers to meeting the natural path or way of Universal Loving Presence. In the context of recovery from active addiction, the...
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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