Conscious living is nothing more than being aware of each and every moment – of living in the now. By living in the moment we cease to identify with past and present and with those the cascade of thoughts with which we erroneously identify.
A bit of a departure today, maybe because it’s rainy and gray out, maybe because it seems to me a lot of us need a bit more music and joy in our lives and a lot less anger and division. When I was a…
It is said that each of us is offered an endless number of opportunities to “awaken.” That life is filled with these mini-alarm clocks, each tolling at different times and frequencies and each affording us an opportunity to stop, if only for a moment,…
People can really drive you crazy, can’t they? The jerk who won’t let you merge into traffic, the neighbor who lets his dog bark incessantly, the spouse who refuses to acknowledge or discuss marital problems, even the U.S. president whose policies and intentions scare…
Virtually all of us exist in a state of chronic, low-grade suffering or, as Thoreau put it, we while away our days in “quiet desperation.” It is the first and perhaps most important of the Buddha’s four noble truths, this idea of life as…
Many of us have a relationship with someone who is utterly out of touch with his or her own behavior. You know the type, forever blaming a mate, society, the Communists, sun spots for what ails them. They repeat the same mistakes over and…
What if everything is really, really OK? What if, as the mystics have taught, all is well, all has always been well and it always will be? Have you ever let yourself believe this – to really believe this? From an early age we…