Steph: As young children, we began to experience the world through our emotional bodies in the way of BIG feelings. They came out in tears, in outbursts, in tantrums. But they did come out. As we grew up, it’s likely we were taught and learned to control these emotions in some ways, but in many ways … Continued
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
“Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. In the Buddhist tradition the analogy of the sun appearing from behind the clouds is often used to explain the discovery of enlightenment” – Chogyam Trungpa Caitlin: Together we’ll explore our clouds (i.e. thoughts, emotions, sensations, distractions) and invite them to settle … Continued
Jude: Who are you? Or what are you? Many meditative traditions emphasize self-inquiry, a practice exploring the nature of Self. But my sense is that many are too soon to dismiss the Self as illusory, before they really get to know it. There are a lot of great things about ourselves, or more accurately, our constellation of parts … Continued
Pamela: How about that moment when you wake up in the morning before you put yourself on? How about it? “How” do we “do” that moment? Or not “do” anything? Is your brain hurting when you’re reading this yet? How about we drop that and start over. We start over again and again each morning, … Continued