The backwards law proposes that the more we chase after something, the more difficult it becomes to catch it and the more disappointed we feel. In oth...

In a culture that tends to feel gratitude for only the pleasant things in our life, the Buddhist approach is to feel gratitude for all things, even th...

The nature of reality is that things come together and things fall apart and then things come together and things fall apart and that cycle goes on an...

Mara is "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment." Mara wants to be feared. We tend to run from the things that we fear, but w...

Dependent Origination is a Buddhist notion that is common among all schools of Buddhism. It's the doctrine that states that all phenomena arise in dep...

Within any given discipline, we all have a circle of skills. In order to grow the circle of skills, we need to do things that are just outside the cir...

In this episode, I will talk about "The First Meditation" a story about an experience that Siddhartha (the Buddha) had when he was 9 years old. I beli...

It can be easy to get caught up "in the thick of thin things" when our perspective is too narrow or zoomed in. When we take the long view, we learn to...

Zen Master Seung Sahn said "I do not teach Buddhism. I only teach don't know." The beauty of not knowing arises when we understand that reality is unk...

Liberation is not a destination we strive to reach, it's a state of mind that is available to us right here and right now. When we fully understand th...