awakening

How to enter the stream

What you need to do to become a stream entrant There are certain things you need to do, and attitudes…

October 11, 2014

Four ways to shake up your meditation practice

Last month I wrote about how sometimes your meditation practice may seem to be going nowhere, and how that's OK.…

October 15, 2013

Why meditation isn’t the main thing in my life

Given that I'm a meditation teacher and the author of a good number of books and audiobooks on meditation, you…

September 3, 2013

“There Is No God and He Is Always with You,” by Brad Warner

Brad Warner is an unconventional American Zen teacher, who seems sincerely to believe that he has found God, that God…

August 27, 2013

Going all the way… (Day 97)

I've been talking about the "divine abiding" of upekkha as being not equanimity, as it's usually translated, but something that's…

July 18, 2013

Looking into the heart’s depths (Day 92)

The four brahmavihāras (divine abidings) are a progressive series of skillful qualities and the meditations in which we cultivate them.…

July 13, 2013

“May all beings dwell in peace”: A guided meditation (Day 91)

This meditation is a recording of a Hangout I did on Google+ with members of Wildmind's community. It's an upekkha…

July 12, 2013

The anxiety of the long-distance meditator

Jeff Warren, New York Times: “You want to cultivate the crackling intensity of the ninja,” Daniel Ingram told me. Ingram…

December 18, 2012

“A little bit pregnant”

In the Buddha’s day, many people got enlightened quickly. Some people would say this is because the Buddha was such…

August 29, 2012

The Fourth Truth: There is a path that leads us away from suffering

I used to be confused about why the third truth came before the fourth. And I realize now that if…

July 2, 2012