Stoop On Stoop Off – the practice of starting over

I was thinking about when I was a kid playing stoop ball. If the ball came back on a bounce, … More

Riding the Wave and Willawonta — Part Two

Willawonta A thought experiment. Imagine sitting in a calm, open state—thoughts flowing without needing to be analyzed. Now imagine a … More

Riding now begins to feel like a rhythm. Each moment noticed is a kind of running out— into experience, into … More

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

The subtle foundation of trying to get what you want is this: most of the effort goes into worrying about … More

I remember being in junior high school, standing on the trampoline in the gym. The first time I jumped down … More

Sometimes I think about how memory and thought actually work in the mind. Most people assume that memories are stored … More

Am I moving through awareness or is awareness moving through me? Let me begin with the orchestra. When I listen … More

This morning’s meditation centered on the unfolding edge of now — how each moment emerges quietly, continuously, almost too smoothly … More

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