#152: “Attention is the rarest...”
Who or what do we give or undivided attention? These days it might be our screens.
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- Jan 24
#151: “Do you think everyone deserves…”
“The benefit of the doubt” in most cases, implies that a person or a situation is less than trustworthy, that based on our past...
- Dec 1, 2022
#144: "Sometimes it feels like I don't know..."
I've been re-reading some of Pema Chödrön's book, When Things Fall Apart, and so much is still so relevant in today's chaotic and...
- Sep 15, 2022
#135: In those quiet moments...
I can glory in the abundance of life and the world, but the quiet moments have always been the ones for me -- not to be apart from it,...
- Aug 31, 2022
#133: "After all is said and done..."
Whether by choice or by necessity, to experience the sweetness of doing nothing is a blessing enjoyed by far too few in this world.
- Aug 16, 2022
#131: "Sometimes I don't recognize myself..."
Collaboration with therapist and mediation teacher Koret Munguldar: Many of us struggle with having a sense of being strangers to...
- Jun 21, 2022
#124: "Do you ever feel like you don't understand..."
From his journals published posthumously as "Keith Haring Journals," artist Keith Haring writes, "Life is very fragile and always...
- Apr 19, 2022
#115: "Let's go for a walk..."
Inspired by "Walking Meditation," a poem by Thich Nhat Hanh: Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk...
- Apr 12, 2022
#114: "Sometimes, I feel like a tiny, tiny drop..."
I am gloriously small and insignificant in this wide and wonderful world.
- Apr 6, 2022
#113: "Paying attention to what is around us..."
Something that is interesting about the Western adoption of Buddhist practice is the application of mindfulness as a means to focus the...
- Jan 11, 2022
#104: "Want is a growing giant..."
From "Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading," this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is evocative, but I sometimes think it is only a...
- Jan 5, 2022
#103: "They say that time heals everything"
Time doesn't heal all wounds, at least not on it own. Time can numb our pain by putting distance between us and our trauma. But, by...
- Nov 2, 2021
#094: "Courage is knowing it might not work..."
It's useful to be able to tell the difference between when you're being brave and when you're being stupid. But it's OK if you don't...
- Sep 12, 2021
#082: "The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn..."
When I first started this account last year, I wasn't 100% sure what I hoped to come out of it, but I suppose that is the thing about...
- Sep 3, 2021
#081: "It is about simple awareness..."
This is a reproduction of a Song Dynasty painting, artist unknown. ✨ When my teacher showed it to me, I wanted to pair it with David...
- Aug 25, 2021
#079: "Is it about the journey or the destination?"
Collaboration with author, Amit Pagedar. Here are his perspectives: "In essence, there are no destinations. Yet our lives are geared...
- Aug 17, 2021
#076: "Do you think stories can ever be harmful?"
Perspectives from Koret Munguldar, psychotherapist and meditation teacher based in Istanbul, Turkey. Here are her perspectives: Growing...
- Jul 16, 2021
#068: "How do you create such a unique sound?"
A little chat inspired by Thelonious Monk... There seems to exist a fallacy in our perception that to be iconic means to have some...
- Jan 25, 2021
#040: "The view is quite different..."
There is a popular Chinese fable and proverb that every child learns at a young age, where a frog who, as the largest animal living at...
- Dec 20, 2020
#032: "Yesterday, I sat with my anger..."
Inspired by a quote from C.S. Lewis. Though C.S. Lewis was a Christian writer, I love that Buddhism also teaches us that when we get...
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