Category: Awareness

Change is About Seeing. Not Doing.

Fifteen years ago, I rang in 2006 with a group of friends in Chicago. We had tickets to an event that included a four course meal followed by a night of drinking and club-hopping. Early in the second course of our dinner, I started to feel sick. I managed to finish most of my meal

Chop Wood, Carry Water

Or chop vegetables, carry water. Same thing.The full zen koan is “Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”What does that mean?I don’t know. But what I hear in it is how simple, practical, and “everyday” insights can be…which is exactly the opposite of how our mind tells us they will

The Space

It’s your capacity to feel uncomfortable and know who you are. Watch that feeling rise and fall without tossing a bunch of words and concepts and mental ideas at it.If you eat, it’s your capacity to feel energy that your mind calls discomfort and know who you are beyond and bigger than it. Watch the

Scary Thoughts

Scary thoughts are not much different than nightmares.When you wake up after a horrible nightmare and realize it was a dream, the emotion begins to fade pretty quickly.There might be some lingering adrenaline throughout the morning, but rarely much.“It was just a nightmare. It’s not real,” is something you might say with great relief.What if

I Don’t Know

There is enormous freedom in remembering how little we actually know.It’s said that the human brain processes 11,000,000 bits of information per second but we are consciously aware of only about 50 bits per second. Isn’t that an incredible ratio? Eleven million bits of information, give or take, are being taken in and processed every

Is your Head in the Clouds?

Has anyone ever told you that you’re out of your mind?It’s a huge compliment.Since when is being in your mind, with your head down low, out of the clouds, the responsible or wise way to be?Being out of your mind means you’re not caught up in the same limited reality everyone else is in. You’re

Lived

We are lived.We’re moved through life by the formless energy that is who-we-are. It guides us, bringing experience to life moment-by-moment in real time.We’re lived by the space beyond temporary, fluctuating form, where both everything and nothing exists. That infinite intelligence is pure potential, pregnant-with-everything, and also completely open and void of any thing. It’s

Telephone

Five kids from the neighborhood are playing telephone in my backyard. The phrase is “Koala bears are cute and pandas bears are cuddly”.Willow whispers it to Sergio, who repeats it to Lilly, who passes it along to Lucas. By the time Lucas whispers the phrase to Miller, it comes out as “Koalas are cute when

Perspective

A couple weeks ago, I boarded a 36 ft. RV with my family. That’s us just before taking off. We look happy, don’t we?The day we picked up the RV, it was huge. It had a king size bed, 1.5 baths, and 3 televisions. Insane, right?By the morning of Day 2, it was a little

It’s easy to worry your way through these uncertain days.

Binge watching the news. Binge eating and drinking everything in sight. Numbing in whatever way brings you momentary comfort.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

Although your outside freedoms may be limited, your internal freedom never is. And although there are a million things that “could happen”, those have nothing to do with life in this very moment.

I wanted to record this special class for you, to speak to some of the common questions and worries I’ve been hearing. I hope this helps you view worry, uncertainty, anxiety and habits in a new way.

Please be well, and consider spending your time looking in the direction of this deeper understanding. It’s full of good news.

Listen to my podcast or others. Read and watch things that remind you who you are beyond your fleeting experience. And please reach out of you need support.

Posted on March 25, 2020July 25, 2022
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Navigating Anxiety and Worry in Uncertain Times

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