It's my birthday today, and it's unlike any I can remember from my now 63 years on this planet. It's…
Today, February 15, is known as Parinirnava Day in much of the Buddhist world. It commemorates the anniversary of the…
The other day one of my meditation students wrote, asking for some advice. She was having to downsize and move…
I lost my beloved orange cat Rusty last June. There’s something about a relationship with a pet that’s so different…
Often when we see change we act like it's a big surprise that the universe has been hiding from us.…
In my last post I said I'd been teaching meditations based on a Buddhist discourse called the Honeyball or Honeycake Sutta.…
Jack Kornfield, in Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, says, “The trouble is, you think you have time.” In other words, we…
One of the Buddha's key teachings — arguably the key teaching — is the four noble truths, which tell us…
Wildmind's online course, The Great Mystery of Being: A Practical Introduction to the Experience of Non-Self, begins on Wednesday, September…
Arguably the central teaching of Buddhism, without which the others make no sense, is that things change. While "things change"…