The Swan and the Sandbar

There is an old image of a swan that can separate milk from water when the two are mixed together, … More

The Wave Beneath Experience

If qigong is meditation in motion, then Sketchfulness is mindfulness in motion. Begin with contact. A sound. A touch. A … More

When my daughter was at work, she asked me to go by and speak to the roofer who was coming … More

There’s a familiar Buddhist teaching about the second arrow. The first arrow is the pain of what happens. The second … More

A submarine, a spaceship, a mind—and a self that may not be where we think it is. The Pressure That … More

I made up a new word: HAPPASIZED. It came from thinking about yoga. You might go to the same yoga … More

There are two complementary ways of stepping back into awareness. The first is becoming aware of the frame of reference … More

Traditional meditation often begins by gathering attention around a single point — the breath, a candle flame, a mantra, an … More

A Three-Foot Sphere of Joy, Presence, and Peac What if happiness is not something we have to find, create, or … More

Climbing the Lighthouse How breath, sketching, and awareness reveal an ever-widening view of ourselves and the world. For a long … More