Six Wisdoms for Going Beyond Yourself

Six Wisdoms for Going Beyond Yourself

By and on May 7th, 2016

Assets Beyond Measure (The Pāramīs) The Adventure of Going Beyond Life is an ongoing adventure. Humanity’s path from ocean to trees to savannah to the internet has been one long journey of “going beyond”. Going beyond our current understanding is what we humans...
Karma Yoga: A Vehicle for Dharma Training

Karma Yoga: A Vehicle for Dharma Training

By on June 5th, 2015

As I am getting ready to leave Clear Sky Retreat Center after being part of the Karma Yoga team, Cata and Sensei discuss with me some of the biggest challenges to maintaining an ongoing practice of Karma Yoga, or meditation in action through service. Their teaching...
Spiritual Healing

Spiritual Healing

By and on August 31st, 2014

Awakening, the great healing. The ongoing, mapped process of awakening is the ultimate spiritual healing. With awakening, the self is transcended, and thus the troubles of the self, of “me,” “my troubles,” are healed. Though any organism is inherently subject to decay...
Awakening: Beyond the Illusion of Self

Awakening: Beyond the Illusion of Self

By and on October 18th, 2013

Quantum physics as well as tradition Buddhist philosophy teach us that nothing in the universe remains the same for even a second. Thus we know that everything we hold and cherish will also pass on and out of our lives, if only at death. This may feel frightening...
Awakening and What’s in the Mirror

Awakening and What’s in the Mirror

By and on October 14th, 2013

I dream, I hope, I work, I love, I play, I dream, I eat. These verbs are all about me; working, hoping, dreaming, loving, eating all continue, even when there is no ‘me’. Who is this ‘me’? Or is it a what? Is ‘me’ a person, a thing, an idea, a feeling? It’s all of...
Waking Within the Dream

Waking Within the Dream

By and on October 10th, 2013

When you wake up in the morning you leave behind one world — the dreaming world — and find yourself in another world — waking life. These two worlds or states share similarities. In Tibetan Buddhism they’re two of six states termed ‘bardos’, or ‘in-between states’....