Here is a video of me trying to explain something. I am not particularly dressed for the occasion.

As an anthropologist I was trained to be most attentive to what people said after you closed your notebook or turned off your recorder...

I took a meditation vacation this weekend. I cleaned my house, got ready for a trip, and rested. After the last few weeks of health...

This blog doesn’t have to just have my ideas in it. I appreciate comments, but if you have a longer piece you believe might fit here,...

I think somehow what is called human evolution is actually its devolution. At some point, being able to plan for the future, store data...

I have been reading David Hinton’s masterly translations of Ch'an Buddhist and Taoist classics, sometimes character and ideogram by...

This morning, I bustled about getting coffee, then traipsed over to the living room and moved the rocker to face the windows but still...

In the morning as the sun comes up on the other side of the house, all I see is the sky lightening bit by bit until the top of the...

Don't take what I write in any particular blog too seriously. What I write today or tomorrow is what I think I know today or tomorrow,...

Jose Shinzan Palma, Zen priest and Dharma successor to Roshi Joan Halifax, gave a teaching the other night to a group of us at the New...

If I am a frog, I do what I do and that helps the pond. I don’t get up every morning and say,“Well, gotta go help the pond!”  A frog...

In an earlier post, I described in conventional language an experience I had while drying my face one morning. I don’t have these...

Among its many difficult demands, Buddhism requires that we take personal responsibility for our own understanding and awareness of how...

I Being a half-baked Buddhist doesn’t mean I am on the way to being done; it means that I am not very good at being a Buddhist. As a...

I read a book of that title when I was just starting out in Buddhism in the 1990’s and also working with people who had survived war,...

Yesterday morning as I was drying my face a strange feeling came. There was not me, but just that moment pretty much, not someone drying...