equanimity

The Challenge, The Beauty The Dharma path is full of significant Challenge, as well as great Beauty . . . each of which arises as we deepen our ongoing understandings of Self and Other. To help jump-start your progress, consider the following perspectives: The other person is always Right . . . Right about her … Read more

Where Are You?

I was reading a 1990 interview with James Hillman, the acclaimed psychologist, whose work was greatly inspired by his studies with Carl Jung in the 1950’s. In speaking of ‘New Age’ movements, he remarked, “Meditation, in today’s world, is obscene. To go into a room and sit on the floor and meditate on a straw … Read more

Awakened Mind

Awakened Mind is not a hide-and-seek game objective, nor is it found at the end of a scavenger hunt. It is not encountered accidentally, or through operating some sort of apparatus or flipping an appliance on-off switch. Nor is it a novelty, an entitlement discovered via some Dharma doodad or gimmicky gizmo. *** In discussing … Read more