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December 2022

December 12, 2022

A common question, “How did you become Buddhist?”

The question comes up once in a while. It’s natural for it to come up...

June 2022

June 16, 2022

What’s Meditation? (short answer)

Whenever I teach a meditation class I always ask the people what they think meditation...

February 2022

February 11, 2022

Skills for Settling the Mind

In the book ‘A Fearless Heart,' Thupten Jinpa (PhD and former monk) describes a list...

September 2021

September 04, 2021

Rough Edges and Scissorhands

Our meditation practice can help us soften our rough edges. This is an analogy that...

April 2021

April 21, 2021

I’m Too Busy to Meditate

Today I want to address the question, “What if I’m too busy to meditate?” This...

January 2021

January 11, 2021

Reasons We Don’t Meditate

I have this friend who said, “I really want to come to your event, but...

January 04, 2021

Three Kinds of Laziness

Laziness is a thing that we don’t talk about enough, I think. It’s often something...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

I want to talk about the four foundations of mindfulness today. This is based...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

Keep Natural Disasters in Mind

A natural disaster, a so-called Act of God, doesn’t discriminate between its victims. It damages...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Han Shan on Material Objects

This is a passage from a teaching by Master Han Shan called "The Maxims." Why...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Sword of Discrimination

What is the best way to sever our attachment to material things? First, we need...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Afflictions

We give a lot of power to some of the thoughts and emotions that harm...

February 01, 2018

No Self and You

This is a hard concept for us to understand. Anatta....no self. I'd like to explain...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Fixation

There are times in life when we put all of our attention on something and...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Stress

We often think of stress as something that happens to us, something out there that...

August 22, 2017

Great American Eclipse: Expectations and Wonder

"Listen to the love letters sent by the wind and the rain; the snow and...

July 2017

July 10, 2017

Lojong Point 5: Evaluation

This group of slogans is connected with the perfection of meditation. We are beginning to...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Emptiness and Meditation

Contemplating emptiness can be a meditative experience, if we can get into a goalless mindset,...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Awakening With Breathing

Following the Breath This technique has been around for a long time. It is almost...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

Taming Your Mind

Part of what we're trying to do on the Buddhist path is to tame our...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

Why Did You Become A Buddhist?

I tell two different stories about how I discovered Buddhism. One of them is that...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

The Six Perfections

The most important teaching for walking the bodhisattva path is the six perfections. The six...