the church of what’s happening now

Our son Kupai started Kindergarten last week. When I woke him up for school the other day I asked him how he had slept. He said that it was really frustrating that after we read him his story and kiss him goodnight he thinks about the events of the day. He explained that he thinks [...]

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from dread to delight-faith in the present moment

As we approach the end of another year, perhaps we have become more aware of the passage of time. This awareness may pop up in the midst of rushing around, going to the post office, shopping, and then it’s buried. I get stopped in my tracks when I sit down to meditate, and remember, after [...]

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so simple

This whole thing is so simple. It’s our mind’s deeply entrenched habit to want to make this more complicated than it really is. And we get little help from many Buddhist scriptural and other tradition-bound sources–if anything, studying, reading or listening may leave us with nothing more than a headache.
Meditation is simple resting: resting in [...]

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chasing phantom treasure

We find ourselves very often chasing phantom treasure. We keep falling for it–the future is where we will find this treasure. No matter how often you seem to “get” it, a new it to get pops up. Why don’t we consider the radical possibility that treasure is looking for treasure?
If that is allowed as a [...]

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