resentment Archive

  • A Taste of Love to Order the Feast

    A Taste of Love to Order the Feast

    You cannot ask the universe for something if you cannot conceive of it.  In November of last year,...
  • From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
  • Exquisite Tenderness: Cultivating a Blissful Compassion

    Exquisite Tenderness: Cultivating a Blissful Compassion

    Is your heart heavy today?  I could feel its weight just as the clouds began to fill the sky.  A...
  • Stories of Awakening

    Stories of Awakening

    Below are accounts of awakening (e.g., satori, moksha, nirvana, enlightenment) reprinted from various sources, such as Zen Flesh, Zen Bones,...
  • Still Luminous

    Still Luminous

    Last night, I was awake all night, while sleeping, enjoying another one of those full nights resting in clear, lucid,...
  • Trusting that You Are Loved

    Trusting that You Are Loved

    When peace and tranquility, bliss even, begins to fill most every moment, healing feels complete.  These past few weeks, I’ve...
  • A Boogie with Sole

    A Boogie with Sole

    For nearly a year, twice every month, I attended an event in town known as the Barefoot Boogie.  Set in...
  • Warmth in the Cold

    Warmth in the Cold

    Who do we turn to in times of need? Reflections on loss return me, somehow, to a state of bliss.
  • Cut Off, Part II

    Cut Off, Part II

    The function of compassion for those who feel cut off is to return them to the whole. This is not...
  • Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
  • Uncoiling the Downward Spiral

    Uncoiling the Downward Spiral

    Certain needs tend to evoke emotional responses that make the situation worse in a way that aggravates the need, which...
  • Meditations

    Meditations

    Following is a list of the specific meditation practices that have worked well for me in the past.  In particular,...
  • Nothing to Protect

    Nothing to Protect

    Keep your heart open when you want to close it, and you will find that the heart needs no shielding.