Spirituality – Buddhist Therapist

The Dance of Life: The Endless Sway Between Joy, Power and Pain

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.”-

A recent observation: we are a society that hates boredom. After all, why be bored when we have so many

In adulthood, it can feel like there are few opportunities for real possibility in one’s daily life. We are slaves

I’ve written ad nauseam about meditation, and you’re probably tired of hearing about it. But it is an endlessly 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

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

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

I’ve recently dived into Carl Jung’s “The Red Book,” which I can only describe as a work of madness or

When HBO’s “The Leftovers” began to air in 2014, it was an unusually glum show, and to be perfectly frank,

Outside the French bakery, a line snakes in a whorl toward East 7th Street. I am alone in my bedroom

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

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1 I am the most important person

The most painful memories are the lives we’ve never got to live, the choices we never got to make. As

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at