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suffering

Life is suffering said the Buddha, and it is through chronic or acute suffering that we at last say ‘enough’ and begin the search for an alternate path, a way out of our humanness. Suffering is perhaps the greatest and most obvious portal into spirituality.

The truth shall set you free

Your Mind Can’t Set You Free

Beginning many years ago, when my suffering sent me to my knees begging god for help, I apparently was granted a few small mercies. In an early morning parking garage: The truth will set you free. In a desert canyon: Know yourself, the rest…

May 8, 2017

The Peace that Surpasses Understanding

So when you think about yourself and those you know best, what is it that each of us wants above all else? When you peel back all the thoughts and desires, the wants and needs, the layers of anxiety and suffering, what lurks at…

June 28, 2016

The Joy of Meaninglessness

Nothing matters. Now there’s a fun-loving rhetorical turd you should try dropping at a dinner party sometime. People go positively apoplectic when you suggest their lives – life itself – is meaningless. But it’s true. And you don’t need me to prove it. You…

June 9, 2016

Surrender is NOT an Option

Are you able to let go, to really surrender to life, to let it take you wherever it sees fit? I know I’m not. I try. But if I catch myself, that surrender comes easiest when there’s a bit of security around me. The…

May 18, 2016

Silence of the Heart

In the Silence is where all the power is. In the Silence is where all the answers are. – Robert Adams There are times when I stand on a hillside or deep in the woods or sitting quietly on my porch, when the Great Truth…

May 9, 2016

Life Really is an Auto-Biography

When I was very little my father took it upon himself to force-feed me the foods I refused to eat. Described to me later in life by the two witnesses at the table – my mother and older sister – these episodes apparently played out…

April 20, 2016