Dear Body,  First and foremost, thank you for carrying me through this world. You’ve waited a long time to receive some thanks for all that you do as a home for me. Actually, you’ve never even asked for any thanks at all. I wish I’d thanked you sooner.  Thank you for your loyalty to me…

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…

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…

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…

Since as long as I can remember, I have experienced a deep sense of ache as August turns toward September. The feeling unfailingly arrives, landing in my heart each year as surely as the leaves will change. Sadness has never felt like the proper descriptor, as it misses the sweetness in the feeling, yet words that are too…

Without being in the practice of having already arrived, I’d spend my whole life rushing to arrive somewhere else. What a lovely and relieving paradox it is to know that we can only get to where we want to go from where we are right now. All at once, or perhaps sometimes one and sometimes the…

Rarely does change occur all at once, despite our human nature to wish at times that it would. Instead, it comes much more often as the product of incremental shifts. With practice in honouring the subtle shifts that occur through transition, there is opportunity to discover a calm peaceful patience in the process of change….

Like our days, Nature is order and chaos. It is full of colour and nuance. Nature’s lesson is that there is space of mind in Being with all of that, rather than resisting what inevitably is with the futile pursuit of accepting the calm while refusing the storm. We cannot, despite our most stubborn persistence, know one…