Who’s Minding the Breath

Who’s Minding the Breath? Today a simple question stayed with me: Who’s minding the breath? I was practicing kapalabhati—active exhale, … More

Four Flavors of Coffee

There’s a tendency to swallow the whole thing at once. Peanut butter and jelly isn’t just peanut butter and jelly. … More

I began with an image of a box. The box represented the background of emptiness. In one side of the … More

Most of the time my experience is flattened. Body sensations, mental narration, emotional tone, memory, anticipation — all blended into … More

I began by noticing something very simple. Before I form a sentence in my mind, something is already moving. There … More

Imagine sunlight spread across the whole sky.Soft. Diffuse. Everywhere at once. Now imagine placing a magnifying glass under it.The same … More

I imagine shrink wrap—the kind used in shipping, where all the air has been pulled out. Whatever is inside is … More

Sometimes I turn on a basketball game, a football game, a tennis match, and I don’t care at all who’s … More

After reading in Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s book his suggestion to go into conflict—into the very heart of the noise, agitation, … More

There is a subtle current moving through every moment—mood. Like a room’s lighting or the key of a song, it … More