James: There is subject and object, figure and ground, me and you, inside and out, here and there, good guys and bad ones, Starsky and Hutch. Okay, okay, the last one was a bit of a reach, at the horizons of even my aging memory, but you get the idea. For convenience, our mind parses phenomena … Continued
James: In both interpretations of the phrase, it’s right here. As in: with the world, consonant with how it is supposed to be, for it can be no other way. Also, the opening into a new one that fits us ever better. This is the tension we walk as meditators, the movement between these two. The … Continued
James: As we continue the practice of meditation, we liberate energy otherwise lost to consternation, furtive thinking patterns or behaviours. What once might have disappeared into friction is used to improve our view. Trees get a deeper green, the sparrow song that calls from them, a note sweeter. Friendships too. As discrimination improves, everything becomes more … Continued
James: After 20 years in the ER, if I haven’t seen it all, I’ve seen enough. People hurting themselves, others. I’m left with a question: Is it possible to be non-violent in a world that makes the position seem both poorly rewarded, and unwise? In my view, it is, and the rewards are undersold. Surprisingly, it … Continued
James: For the second sit of this month, themed on interconnection, we are going to call off the search. Fully. Aimlessness. Just sitting. No effort. No looking, only finding. At the same time the most simple and difficult of all practices. And who knows, like Meister Eckhart intimated, maybe the path to the divine is closer … Continued