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 … More

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 … More

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

The Audiobook I Didn’t Want to Hear How Awareness and Equanimity Caught Up with Each Othe Awareness and equanimity seem … More

Running and Returning What became clearer this morning is that the present moment is not a fixed thing. It is … More

Blankets of Me Happy Dust and the Invisible Self This morning my mind got playful. I imagined that at the … More

The Microscope of Thought Seeing what moves too fast to be noticed Continuing from this morning’s reflection on the stick … More

The Puzzle Factory of Impermanence Different pictures on the surface, the same pieces underneath A striking feeling came this morning—not … More

An old doorway opened this morning. What I used to call Aladdin’s closet—a small, sloping space from childhood, built by … More

I had just finished recording—peaceful, steady—and then, in an instant, it was gone. A minute and a half erased by … More