Life has a way of testing the foundations we think are solid. One month you’re moving steadily through your plans, and the next you’re ...
27
Nov
25
Nov
As a Westerner, trying to develop on the eightfold path can be a head-scratching process. The Buddha’s teachings to renounce pleasure-s...
20
Nov
It was about 2 a.m., phone glowing on my face, when I typed four words that would change everything: “how to be happy.” I s...
19
Nov
When the mind begins to quiet, something beautiful happens. A new layer starts to appear—the intuitive mind. It’s hard to explain, beca...
13
Nov
I plug my daughter’s middle school address into Google Maps to see which way is the least congested, and then turn left to go the prett...
11
Nov
If you look closely, there is a kind of seeing that happens before the eyes open. Before recognition, before the mind decides what a th...
07
Nov
Around 10 years ago, I spent a weekend reliving my teenage times by renting a couple of ’90s World Wrestling Federation (WWF) pay...
05
Nov
According to Thānissaro Bhikku, between the oppositional extremes of determinism and total free will, the Buddha characteristically pro...
31
Oct
Perhaps especially when life seems, as the poet Robert Frost put it, “too much like a pathless wood,” it’s common enough to allow our o...
23
Oct
The stories we tell about ourselves can become cages. Mine were lined with perfectionism and survival logic—a looping narrative that sa...