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June 1, 2010Moments of luminous awareness, or awakening, are often described as an opening beyond oneself that encompasses everything just as it...
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April 24, 2010In the course of mediation, when periods of awakening arise, is that something you can make your new identity?
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February 27, 2010Today, I stopped praying for things to get easier. It just occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary. For many...
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Below are accounts of awakening (e.g., satori, moksha, nirvana, enlightenment) reprinted from various sources, such as Zen Flesh, Zen Bones,...
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February 17, 2010An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 9, 2010Encountering your worst fear, a situation that means the end of you, so it seems, sink into it. Don’t try...
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February 7, 2010Take a breath. Feel the air enter your body. Embrace every sensation, thought, and emotion coursing through you in this...
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February 2, 2010Finishing Jan’s book. And waking up more fully, more deeply. Dawn taking root. The holy fallout which I read about...
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January 22, 2010An encounter with Buddhist fundamentalism reminds me to look for the hidden teaching in every moment.
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December 3, 2009 What if some experiences that look like personal failures are actually markers of spiritual growth?
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November 24, 2009The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
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November 23, 2009I woke up one morning feeling as though I’d been impaled on a spike, helpless, vulnerable, and shivering with agony. ...
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About DzogchenNovember 4, 2009 Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Source: www.nyingma.com The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to...
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How to reach the non-conceptual state described in Dzogchen Buddhism by understanding how concepts are confused with perception and using...
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Stepping BackOctober 13, 2009 Whatever you can step back from and hold in awareness is not you, the pure awareness. In meditation, one...
Written by an embodiment psychologist, Zen Buddhist, and single mother, "Waking Heart" is a diary of synchronicities, lessons both learned and forgotten, accidental awakenings, and the cultivation of love.