Freedom in the Discipline of Practice

Freedom exists in the everyday discipline of practice. Practice might be sitting down each morning to spend time witnessing the nature of mind, but formal practice in quiet solitude where we are exempt from our daily triggers is not, on its own, the practice that sets us free. Rather, practice exists in each and every…

For all the Anxious People

Anxiety is an essential element of our human experience, whether we welcome it as that or not. Anxiety readies us for future challenges- real or imagined, protects us from past situations that we learned through pain were harmful- relevant now or not, and tells us to get a move on from present circumstances that are…

Giving Up Ground

I am free when I remember that the sense of falling comes with the relieving truth that there is no ground. Everything is change. Tension arises when the mind resists the reality of our groundlessness and grasps on to the idea that our lives are at the control of our own fingertips. Recognizing that our lives are subject to…