The notion of a living Buddha is, that following the Buddhist path our relationship with the Buddha is alive, experiential and developmental.
WARTS AND ALL
That Perfect Moment
What happens before a thought? Is there an instance of space that opens? Before we fill it with a cognition? Before we decide what this moment means? Before the notion of “me” arises again? Maybe in this perfect moment of open space anything and everything is possible. I wonder whether the birth of a thought […]
DON’T START BELIEVING
Just Connect to the Feeling The title is a play on the Journey song. Though it was a massive hit, I’m not a fan of the band, nor the sentiment of the song. Don’t stop believing? What would we do if we didn’t have to believe anything? Beliefs are things we have to squint our […]
TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE
Turn and Face the Strange …
TALKING TO MYSELF
Making Sure I’m still here I was riding in the car with a friend. After a time we had fallen into silence. I found myself having an imaginary conversation with a brother who lived on the other side of the continent. I’m an Italian American, so I talk to myself with my hands. My friend […]
Stability. Clarity. Strength.
Daily Practice Changes Everything There’s a feeling we all have that the more triggered we are, the greater the remedy we need. Therefore, we often overlook very basic and fundamental tools that help us regain and maintain emotional balance and mental clarity. Being triggered affects our stability because the experience compels us to react. Often […]
WALKING THE WARRIOR PATH
Good and evil. What cosmic narcissism to be the center of everything in the moral universe. The classic trope of the good angel on one shoulder and the bad angel on the other with us caught in a struggle between ultimate good and ultimate evil. Many of us continue to live under the weight of […]
HONORING THE MOTHER LINEAGE
By Nurturing Our Natural Kindness I wanted to reach out in the spirit of my mother, who passed a few years ago and for whom I will always carry a quiet torch. In many ways, she was the great love of my life—a spiritual guide, a dear friend, and a near perfect mom. Trudi, […]
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
Choosing Peace in Times of War These days many of us describe our world as crazy, cruel and chaotic. It seems socio political dysfunction is a common experience. This lack of stability in our outer reality understandably influences our inner health and wellbeing. When our mental health is attacked, even the pressures we normally face […]
PLEASE RELEASE ME
The Joy of Letting Go Learning to let go is important to our health and happiness. Letting go is releasing into openness, rather than creating tensions that to shut us down. But letting go is not getting rid of anything. It is not pushing anything away. It is simply releasing our stranglehold on the things […]