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I’m always trying to figure out how everything is connected, and what we can break things down into. What are the “building blocks” of existence, of time and space, of being human, of being conscience, of being “good”, of “being”. I read a lot of books on all kinds of topics and meditate and cook […]

Answering questions is easy; figuring out which questions to work on is the real difficulty. If we as a species spent more time working on what issues we were going to address and less time answering them not only would we find we have even more time to other things, but the quality of the

I am filled with Love right now. I just spent time with old friends from Texas via Zoom for their church service several time zones away. I could feel the Love. Love deserves to be capitalized, so I will capitalize it here throughout.   What is Love? Is Love simply energy? Seems pretty reasonable. Expansive

There are so many things wrapped up in this particular learning for me. Let’s start with the obvious. I have always thought that I want to be “good”. I have always had difficulty separating my identity from this thought. What is identity, do we need it? Do we always need it? Is ego the same

This began as two separate gratitudes, one for my teachers and a second for my students. But, really, they go together as one thought. I am grateful for the other sentient beings and even non-sentient ones that have helped me on the path. It really does not matter much whether one is in the “student”

Obviously, all living things, including us, make assumptions. We all need to in order to survive. Imagine if a rabbit or a George had to determine from scratch whether or not there was a significant danger posed every single time he (or she) encountered a fellow person/rabbit. Imagine if we had to run complicated biochemical

“I am doing the best that I can”! No, not really. Technically we never are. And on one level this is perfectly fine and essentially inevitable. On the other hand, if we think that we are doing our best then we are deluding ourselves and likely giving ourselves permission to not succeed nor even try

I’ve learned and reaffirmed a lot during the pandemic; I bet you have too. I’ve learned that some things that I thought were really important to me seem to have fallen out of my life. I’m okay with some of these changes, others really puzzle me (why can I not seem to do yoga from

Take a pen out and a sheet of paper and write a letter by hand to a friend or loved one, put a stamp on it, and walk it to the mailbox. Turn off the wifi at home for a few hours. Turn off the TV. Sit and listen to the rain or walk in

Nearly all of us (that can) use language every day. It is incredibly useful; don’t get me wrong. But, as with everything else, it is not perfect. There are trade-offs to be made in using language. One of the many pitfalls of language…of words…is that they only approximate something. A tree is a tree, it