Category: Teachings

Once upon a time there was a creature endowed with a fine mind, and also with sense receptors that were sweetly attuned to the surrounding world and to its own delightful body. (more…)

This is the terrible irony of the vast majority of human suffering: the thing that gives rise to it in the first place is then asked to alleviate it. The mind cannot relieve what it has brought about. But this is what we attempt to do.  (more…)

It’s said (and has been said for millennia) that it’s possible for a person not to suffer, not to be subject to fear and desire. (more…)

There appears to be a you having an objective existence, independent of your mind’s narrative of a self. The further impression is that this you has experiences.   (more…)

Talking to God. Who never talks back. Just a receptivity, a ceaseless openness.  (more…)