Buddhism – Buddhist Therapist

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

One hundred years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote the poem “The Second Coming.” Much was happening in the world when

I wrote something for Tricycle magazine! An excerpt to the beginning for you to peruse: During a lecture, a student asked Shunryu Suzuki, the

Just a quick post, I wrote something for Mental Hellth, a newsletter about mental health and capitalism. The full version

In the cosmic, grand scheme of things, our lives don’t mean a whole lot. Or they are the most important

It’s been a while! I have no excuses really except that I was on vacation and tried to write a

Recently I’ve had the thought that rationality or even science is not “objective” but is its own worldview. It may

I recently published my first piece for Tricycle magazine. To be honest, it’s been nerve-wracking as hell to have it

Once a monk made a request of Joshu. “I have just entered the monastery,” he said. “Please give me instructions,

On the night he was enlightened, the Buddha sat under a Bodhi tree and sat in meditation, vowing to stay

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I read a wonderful piece in Tricycle magazine today about what a spiritual life looks like. The timing for me

On to my second post about the Brahma-Viharas. You can read the first one on loving-kindness here. Now I will

The Brahma-Viharas, translated by some as “sublime attitudes,” are the Buddha’s most important teachings of the heart. There are 4

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid

To live without defenses is an impossibility. But still, we must try. All of us are so defended constantly protecting

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. The longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.- Stanley Kunitz