Dharma week 24-30 April: Who are we in the world? "Nothing to worry about" doesn't mean "everything is going great." It just means,...

Over the 9 years that I have offered online teachings, I have come to love the way themes and breakthroughs seem to happen around the...

All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed. I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...

"Curls of Love and Interest," drawing by Jaya Wendell Berry grappling with ideas about food, sexuality, gender, community... decades ago...

Is it self-indulgent to commit to so-called inner work? Is it avoidance if we devote ourselves to so-called outer work? (Drawing by...

Kathleen Dowling Singh: ~Dying is safe. ~Our fear of death is grounded in a strong sense of the 'I'" ...a transformation from perceived...

Another old CD coming back to life--Handel's Messiah-- has kept me company driving in the rain this week. Listening and singing along...

Sweet Honey in the Rock introduce their miraculous singing of "Wade in the Water," with this invitation/warning: "If you want change in...

Atul Gawande raises questions that help us be as perfectly imperfect as we are--mortal and holding very specific things precious. He...

Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or...

"Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could'“plow like men, and pick cotton...

I don't always like to use this kind of question--we don't need to earn life by being useful. So many people have a nagging feeling that...