Recognizing Where I Am and Letting Go

Recognizing Where I Am and Letting Go This morning I meditated on a series of words describing a gradual movement…

Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage What would it be like to travel inside things? Imagine having a miniature submarine, like in the movie…

Feeling Impermanence — Dissolving Insecurity into the Flow

Feeling Impermanence — Dissolving Insecurity into the Flow When insecurity arises, the instinct is to reach for the phone —…

Why a Movie Can Make You Cry

Why a Movie Can Make You Cry When Awareness Knows Itself in Four Movements A movie is a strange thing…

Touch What? A Meditation on Contact, Consciousness, and Letting Go

Touch What? A Meditation on Contact, Consciousness, and Letting Go A step-by-step exploration of experience as it arises, dissolves, and…

How Many Nuts Does a Squirrel Need?

How Many Nuts Does a Squirrel Need? Finding the tiny ripple of insecurity before it sends us looking for reassurance…

The Most Important Thing Seems Insignificant

Why the smallest ripple of liking or not liking may be the key to practice One of the challenges in…

The Water Chair and the Screens of Awareness

The Water Chair and the Screens of Awareness A contemplative image of how experience is seen and held through awareness…

The Ripple Before the Cookie

The Ripple Before the Cookie Thought, Sensation, and the Road to Nirvana. I was reading about the relationship between thought…

When Traffic Becomes Music

When Traffic Becomes Music The Road to Nirvana Sitting on a deck in Duck, North Carolina, I was trying to…