Embodying the Tao
May I live as the river flows Carried by the surprise of my own unfolding. -John O’Donohue Cultivating Resilience and Nourishment Through Taoist Principles This summer we have been embodying the Tao in all of our practices. The Tao is best likened to water that is pliable, nourishing, and flows with …
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The Union of Opposites
The Split: A Universal Human Experience It is so easy for the mind to get split, hearkening back to the days of Sesame Street when an apple and a banana bounced across the screen with the ditty “one of these things is not like the other, one of these things …
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Summer Solstice Meditation: Light on Consciousness
Tonight is the mid-summer new moon when the skies go pitch black. Time for endarkenment, a silent bidding to go to the place where nothing stirs, a yogic sleep where your mind turns vast and space fills your head like a firmament of stars. Then, in three days time, the Summer …
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It’s Boundless
First off, I just love the word boundless because like the Big Bang, or like the salt in the ocean, or “all the grains of sand in the Ganges”, or the number of YouTube videos put up every minute (400 which is 576,000 a day or 207,360,000 a year– but check with …
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Summons
The Habit Body/Mind: A Slow Descent into Unconsciousness As we get older it is all too easy to go through the motions and get caught up by the humdrum ways of the habit body/ habit mind. Routine takes over, people cocoon into the familiar and slowly but surely go unconsciousness …
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Opening to the Auspicious
One of my favorite words in the Sanskrit language is mangalam. It has a nice ring to it, in fact if you repeat it ten times, mangalam, mangalam, mangalam… it could be beneficial to your health. The closest word we have in English by translation is auspicious, another nice word that goes …
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The Now of the Tao
When you practice, remember that you are in the now wherever you are and in whatever you do. The now is a constant, massive, ginormous thing. It is ever productive and always changing. I tend to forget this and catch myself striving to get ahead, longing for a place I …
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Resource Without End
Today we are blindly burning through our natural resources the world over. The globe’s waterways, soils, forests, plant, and animal species, energy sources such as gas, coal, cobalt, and oil are being depleted at break neck speed. Mankind, in his addiction to the material world is squandering the very life …
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The Womb of the Buddha
On this mother’s day we are reminded that all human beings are born from the womb. I am thinking not just the ordinary, run-of the-mill womb however, but the cosmic womb, the womb of the creator, the buddha-womb. The Buddha-Womb: A Fertile Space of Enlightenment Take for instance the great …
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Wild Wild Growth
Springtime at seven thousand feet in the Rocky Mountains is wild. Just today it was 70 degrees, then plummeted to 40. In the morning the skies were a brilliant blue and by 4 o’clock a hail storm blew in, shredding the recently budded aspen leaves. Transformation Through Yoga Personal transformation …
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