“Who are we, really?” the Zen koans demand, “Who is dragging this body around?” or “What was your original face before your parents were born?”…
(Read Part One of The Storytelling Mind) When we look at the constant and repetitive process of our own thinking, we see how habitually it…
In awakening our Buddha nature, we find that there is one further aspect of self to understand, the need to honor our personal destiny. This…
Consciousness itself is the witness to our lives, and we are born with it, in its purest form. It knows that what we often identify…
In non-identification we stop taking the experience as me or mine. We see how our identification creates dependence, anxiety, and inauthenticity. In practicing non-identification, we…
Buddhist psychology calls non-identification the abode of awakening, the end of clinging, true peace, nirvana. Without identification, we can respectfully care for ourselves and others,…
“How amazing. All living beings have the Buddha nature of awakening and freedom, yet they do not realize this. Unknowingly they wander on the ocean…
