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March 26, 2011What does it mean to be the vast, singular awareness while simultaneously living in a physical body? In innumerable physical...
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October 20, 2010I’ve been feeling an inexplicable yet palpable, edgy grief filled with gnarling anguish, waves of tenderness, and hints of nostalgia,...
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September 6, 2010 I have been inadvertently weeding out potential suitors with a sort of Buddhist IQ test. When I first moved to...
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August 31, 2010Analyzing the data for my dissertation is highlighting for me the limits of intellectual knowing. Welcome to the Zen of...
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June 4, 2010A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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June 2, 2010Watching unpleasant emotions quickly turn into raw energy, the key seems to be seeing through concepts.
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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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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 26, 2010The deepest healing occurs when we open to the possibility that our perspective can change.
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May 23, 2010An otherwordly contentment filled my day today. Something that should have caused me sadness brought me peace and tenderness instead. ...
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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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May 7, 2010 A short story about the perpetuation of friendship in the face of grief and impermanence.
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April 28, 2010If you ask for healing, watch your thoughts. Sometimes the divine speaks with our own inner voice.
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April 19, 2010Forgiveness and redemption are healing, but you can still find wholeness even when others cannot offer it.
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April 15, 2010Thoughts on how the outer world reflects the inner world and the intricacies of manifestation.
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April 2, 2010Archetypal wisdom on how women’s “falling apart” can open the doors to awakening.
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March 29, 2010On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
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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, 2010Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it? A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character...
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February 23, 2010Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
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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, 2010 An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 16, 2010In this frozen moment, your warm consciousness finds all existence waiting.
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February 14, 2010If you are beset by a negative self-image, especially one that is self-fulfilling and reflected back to you by others...
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February 10, 2010Again and again, I have this same experience. Some situation in my life is causing pain, something I can hardly...
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February 9, 2010 Encountering 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 9, 2010The tribal-minded people, like orchids, wither here. The souls looking for sun and rain on the outside, for a hospitable...
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January 31, 2010I’m learning to ground myself in something deeper. I’ve been reading more of Jan’s book (When Fear Falls Away, by...
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January 16, 2010 For nearly a year, twice every month, I attended an event in town known as the Barefoot Boogie. Set in...
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January 14, 2010I am being reassembled. The process is unmistakeable. It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
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January 4, 2010How do we continue to love those from whom we are estranged? Should we remain open to those who move...
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December 26, 2009The ultimate goal of the spiritual path is to become lucid. Mindfulness meditation, the favored technique for beginners, is a...
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December 22, 2009 The function of compassion for those who feel cut off is to return them to the whole. This is not...
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December 17, 2009Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
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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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December 2, 2009 An adventure in facing worst fears. This particular monster? Psychiatry. I enter with stigma and exit with side effects.
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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 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 6, 2009 I want to contact that which is real in others, but the meeting of minds never lasts. The souls who...
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.