It’s always darkest before the dawn
Last week we hopped on the MV Camic for a four-day scuba trip around Thailand’s Andaman Sea that we planned as the highlight of our honeymoon. World-famous reefs packed with enormous schools of dazzling…
Even as I doubted the cosmological basis of Chia’s system and the goal of “immortality” that it drives to, I tried to keep a beginner’s mind for the practices themselves, to let the effects speak for…
May the Force be with you.
-Mantak Chia
“What am I doing here?” It was a fair question to ask myself, almost every day last week. The Force that Chia was…
Happiness is here and now,
I have dropped my worries.
Nowhere to go,
Nothing to do,
Finally, the true depth of my suffering started to become clear to me: deep anxiety underlay every moment of my life. And before I could begin to heal others…
Still wary from my first meditation flameout five years earlier, it took me until the Spring of 2017 to find the courage to lead a few…
When the clock struck midnight to welcome 2017, I counted my many blessings. I had a good job with a supportive team, a loving…
