anicca (impermanence)

The second reminder: Death and impermanence

'One day I will die. I can not escape it. Death comes to everyone, including me.' As I write this…

October 8, 2012

Tibetan sky burial photographs

An astonishing series of photographs of a Tibetan "sky burial," where a corpse is cut up and fed to vultures,…

September 29, 2012

Embrace fragility

The truth of anything is like a mosaic with many tiles, many parts. One part of the truth of things…

September 19, 2012

We are the miracle

Joyful to have such a human birth Difficult to find Free and well- favored. Composed by Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.…

September 3, 2012

Presence in the face of dying

At the end of a daylong meditation workshop, Pam, a woman in her late sixties, drew me aside. Her husband,…

August 30, 2012

Find stillness

Things keep changing. The clock ticks, the day unfolds, trees grow, leaves turn brown, hair turns gray, children grow up…

August 29, 2012

The first reminder: My precious birth

I hope it is not too late to realize that joyful is my precious birth. If we are deep in…

August 6, 2012

Let it go!

Most people, me included, are holding onto at least one thing way past its expiration date. It could be a…

June 15, 2012

Awakening to our true nature

Spiritual practice is about coming back, over and over again, to love and mindfulness, making those our home. I subscribe…

May 29, 2012

When are you?

There’s a profound and miraculous mystery right under our noses: this instant of now has no duration at all, yet…

May 8, 2012