How Guys Talk About Love
Michael and I conducted the second session of our workshop for couples last night and it was fantastic. I think we’re learning as much as the participants. It is so inspiring and humbling to witness the love, courage and [...]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Death
I have been preparing to die for five years now. Not literally, exactly. I have no terminal disease that I know of—except for the fact that I’m breathing, which is at first gasp a death sentence—and I rarely get sick. [...]
Kale & White Bean Soup
This has become a favorite of mine and is always a big hit for a winter lunch at my all day meditation groups. It comes via my good friend Ann Ogden who passed it along to me about four years ago. We [...]
Zen Quotes for March
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself - Zen Saying In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of enlightenment, something is dropped every day. - Lao Tzu To a [...]
One Hand Killing
As a treat for my faithful blog readers and e-mail list subscribers, I have a very special code for you to receive a free copy of my latest edition of One Hand Killing. One Hand Killing is my first book [...]
Hakuin’s Great Doubt
“I am full of shit!” These are the five words I wrote in the middle of my shift at the hospital a few weeks ago, after conducting my first meditation/relaxation group in the Psych ward. On the way in that [...]