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July 27, 2010The water’s fine! The expanded self, or luminosity–entering it is like learning to dive into a river. Over time and...
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June 19, 2010Look up. Set aside the empty box and the packing tape. The sky is a a rich gleaming yellow with...
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May 30, 2010Mental imagery of the social landscape is just mental imagery. What do you have and hold when you love?
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May 20, 2010The magic of this reality, synchronicities and signs and answered prayers, is good medicine for a time, but after awhile,...
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April 11, 2010Apathy often has its roots in the odd, unexpected body memory of prior pain that is evoked by new love.
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April 7, 2010How to identify healthy forms of emotional support and healers that are empowering rather than disempowering.
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March 20, 2010Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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March 7, 2010 Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it? A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character...
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March 3, 2010When we experience pain, we create a pain self. This pain self is connected to a subset of our usual...
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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 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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January 24, 2010What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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December 3, 2009What if some experiences that look like personal failures are actually markers of spiritual growth?
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December 1, 2009Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.
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November 25, 2009I have watched the movie You’ve Got Mail every week for two months. One might think I find it appealing...
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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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November 14, 2009There are times when we truly need far more than others can give. People help with the tools they have...
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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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November 2, 2009Being in total darkness recently took on new meaning for me. Rock bottom is not necessarily a bad place 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...
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On the verge of seeing through his illusory reality, the main character of The Truman Show has a veritable nervous...
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PhilosophyOctober 10, 2009 We begin with a belief in separation, and we think oneness is the illusion. One day we realize we have...
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Sacred AlchemyOctober 8, 2009 No causal chain of events can turn lead into gold. The sacred alchemy lies in transcending our ordinary mode...
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In times of great suffering, we look for teachers or healers who can show us the way out. The need...
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Once you’ve been burned, it’s hard to come close to the fire. There is light and warmth but also the...
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.