Here’s a spiritual practice pro-tip that came up in a conversation with someone recently…. If you are faced with two mutually exclusive, bad choices, that’s a sign that you’re perceiving from within conditioned mind. Life as it is is not dualistic. Dualism is an invention of the human mind. We…

Happy day, everyone! This is a follow-up to the post I made a couple days ago, in which I suggested that there is no such thing as true worldly happiness. I included a passage from the introduction to the Dhammapada, by Eknath Easwaran, in which the author describes the teachings…

Howdy, folks! I hope you’re well today and having a good practice day so far There’s a phrase that has arisen in my mind over and over again these past several weeks. Here it is: “There is no true worldly happiness.” This morning after meditation I read the following passage…

What do you think is the worst thing that can happen to a person? The loss of the child? The loss of a life partner? The loss of one’s health? Being subject to physical or psychological violence? The worst thing that can happen to a person, it seems to me…

I’d like to tell you about something that happened the other day that I found to be just delightful. Tomorrow I hope to jump back into more overtly spiritual stuff. I told you about my not-for-profit handyman service for the elderly and infirm, which I am in the process of…

I miss my years at the monastery sometimes. There are aspects of that life that I’m grateful to have left behind, but it was a beautiful life in many ways, and I remember it with deep fondness. The thing I miss the most is living in community. There was something…

A thousand blessings to you all, friends! A couple times recently I’ve mentioned that I’ve been doing some discernment in regards to the life I’m living and how I would like to spend the next portion of my life going forward. I apologize if I have alarmed anyone. I’ve come…

Hello, everyone! I want to share something with you that I’ve been looking at for myself over these past few weeks…. In every moment, I’ve been seeing, I have a choice: I can be someone who wants, or I could be someone who has. Of course, if within myself I…

Good day, good people! Happy Christmas to you, all! Over much of the world today people will be celebrating the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Let us all honor that great man by practicing what he taught, today and all days. Let us all practice his unconditional love. Let…