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January 2017

January 04, 2017

When I Practice Not-Knowing Instead of Trying to Figure Everything Out

I'm really worried about the 100 days following January 20th. As if there weren't already...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

News Getting You Down? Don’t Check Out! Just Witnessing Helps

An awful lot of my friends have been complaining lately about how overwhelming and depressing...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

The Wise Use of Anger – A Lesson for (Us) Namby-Pamby Liberals

In my last two posts I have counseled thoughtfulness, caution, and compassion in our speech...

November 09, 2016

Five Things To Do Now That Trump Has Been Elected

One: Grieve Half of the people in our country (maybe slightly less than half?) just...

October 2016

October 06, 2016

The World Is Burning and Yet I Garden: Reflections after a Session on Climate Change at the Soto Zen Buddhist Association Conference

I feel that it is very important to say something right now, but it is...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

How to Open Your Eyes but Not Lose Heart

You don't have to be a rocket scientist or a radical thinker to conclude humanity is on...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

The Fallacy “It’s All In Your Mind”: Why What We Do Matters

Spiritual training can result in almost miraculous effects. People training in all different kinds of...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Not Just Guns and Madmen: Our Whole Society Is Insane

Just about every blogger will have something to say in the wake of the Umpqua...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

Dear Emily, My Great-Grand Niece

I have no children of my own, so any descendants of my sister will be...

February 2015

February 07, 2015

When It’s Time to Speak Out as a People of Faith

Last week one of the largest Zen Centers in the U.S. published an open letter...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

From the Individual to the Global Scale: Greed, Hatred and Ignorance Cause Suffering

For millennia, spiritual traditions have recognized that greed, hatred, and ignorance cause suffering in the...

January 06, 2015

I’m Afraid You’ll Stop Reading this Blog If I Talk about This

On New Year's Eve, 2014, I found out that we have two years - until 2017...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

The Problem Is, Most People Hate Themselves

Brittany is a new friend of mine who lives outdoors with her big black dog,...

December 02, 2014

Can We Really Save the World with Lifestyle Change?

I know I am far from the first person to ask this, but can we...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

A Confession of Race-based Fear

I feel moved to confess something about my own race-based fear, prompted by this passage...

November 11, 2014

"Not Knowing" and What It Doesn’t Mean

The post I made last week about wearing my heart and doubt on my sleeve...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Re-establishing a Healthy Narrative

It's been three weeks since I last posted. Life and death have conspired to keep...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Flexible Spheres of Operation

I haven't had a spare moment to post about my journey of conscience for over...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Giddy with Active Hope

The most useful resource I've encountered so far in my journey is a concept called...

August 25, 2014

Venturing Beyond the Palace Walls

Whether or not my conscience feels clean or dirty depends largely on where I'm looking....

August 21, 2014

What’s a Good Media Diet?

Most of us try to find some kind of balance between too much media consumption...

August 18, 2014

Why Should I…?

I sometimes experience a fair amount of stress around deciding when to indulge myself and...

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