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Riding the Stallion: Meditation and Letting Go
I have a friend who for a period of his life struggled with alcohol and drugs. He’s been living a sober life for a decade or so. One day he asked me if I’d help him get tickets to see a sold out...
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Are You Ready? – Seeing The Good Around Us
My brother-in-law is a police officer. I’ve spent a lot of time talking with him, understanding the perspective of a man who wakes up and goes to work at a job that actually might claim his life. A job...
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5 Tools for Creating Space
For as long as I can remember I’ve had a saying hanging in my home. Written over an image of the rising sun of a new day, the saying goes like this: There is always time to make a change. There is...
View ArticleOpening Our Hearts At Work
I’m away for this week at a meditation retreat with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, who I am blessed to be studying with over the next month. In my absence I want to share something with you written by my friend and...
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Spiritual Entrepreneurship
There’s an image going around the Internet of a RadioShack ad from the 1980s. It features a page of electronic items that were available at the time — things like cassette recorders, telephones,...
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The Show Must Go On
There’s a saying in the entertainment industry: the show must go on. According to Wikipedia, it comes from the early 19th century circus business, where it reflected the ideal that regardless of what...
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Everything is Medicine: The Warrior – Monk
I’ve been dancing with a Zen koan for the last few weeks — something John Tarrant once taught me. It goes, “Medicine and Sickness are in accord. The whole world is medicine. What am I?” It’s been a...
View ArticleBeyond Working Ourselves To Death
I got an email this week from a close friend. He shared a note he’d received from a colleague who was suffering. The note was a desperate plea from a dying warrior, a man who’d spent his entire life...
View ArticleWe Didn’t Set Out To Be Assholes
I don’t have many memories of my dad … other than his leaving. I have feelings, the ones I buried deep inside me, the ones I’ve cried about and learned to embrace in therapy, yoga, and meditation. I...
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The Skill Of Our Heart
Recently I was involved in a negotiation surrounding a new business relationship. It began, as most new relationships do, with a friendly back and forth and all the customary getting to know each other...
View ArticleOf Goals, Self-Love and Monarch Butterflies
There’s a place near my home where the monarch butterflies visit each winter. The tree-filled park by the ocean is a safe shelter from the cold. I remember hearing about it as a child from my mom. She...
View ArticlePractice Over Parables
This morning I woke up early. The frogs have been quite noisy lately outside my bedroom window. I’ve read up on their croaking trying to figure out why they make so much noise and, more importantly,...
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