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Meditation
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Sparrow’s Guide To Meditation
Meditation teaches that change is constant. You fool yourself into believing that you are a fixed entity, but you are not. You are a river of transforming whims.
January 2020
The Dog-Eared Page
It’s All Happening To All Of Us, All Of The Time
It is impossible to be a human being connected by affection to others and not be vulnerable to pains beyond our own.
May 2019One Nation, Indivisible
August 2018
Featuring Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, and more.
August 2018The Dog-Eared Page
Two Mirrors Facing Each Other
One does not sit in order to become enlightened. One sits because, as the Buddha exclaimed at the moment of his awakening, one is enlightened as one is. The practice is simply a means of realizing this fact, which the ordinary, dualistic mind obscures.
August 2018The Sun Interview
Our Grand Delusion
Norman Fischer On The Tyranny Of The Self
We are paradoxical. We are beings who are limited and who will always create a world of suffering, and we’re beings who have the capacity to understand that and, in some way, go beyond it.
August 2018
The Dog-Eared Page
Intimacy With Fear
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
July 2018Poetry
Mindfulness
I practice a very special / form of mindfulness / called not-minding-ness. / This has brought me peace and purified / my soul to the point that it is almost / possible to live with me.
January 2018Poetry
Selected Poems
— from “Too Busy” | Have ambition and ego ruined my life? / Where have my easy days gone?
February 2017The Dog-Eared Page
Transforming The Heart Of Suffering
In fact, one’s whole attitude toward pain can change. Instead of fending it off and hiding from it, one could open one’s heart and allow oneself to feel that pain, feel it as something that will soften and purify us and make us far more loving and kind.
November 2016
Poetry
Nobody Fails At Meditation
Nobody fails at meditation / like I do. / They say, / Note the arrival of thoughts / and allow them to pass through / like clouds crossing a summer sky.
July 2014
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