Archives for May 2025

Dear Friends: Open to Your Experience Every time we’re up against the wall, we’re also standing at a threshold. The invitation to open to our experience””whatever it is from moment to moment””is always there, no matter how many times we need to rediscover it. – Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon”™s Mouth” Read More Words of […]

Dear Friends: Ethics from the Heart For the Zen Buddhist, an ethical precept is a question to be held up to the light of circumstance, an inquiry rather than an answer. And the nature of this inquiry is not so much the dubious enterprise of trying to figure out the right thing to do as […]

Dear Friends: How I Stopped My Panic Attacks Knowing how I struggled, my father, a famed meditation teacher, advised me to welcome my panic. So I dutifully began to greet each panic episode with, “Oh, hello, anxiety, welcome!” It did help somewhat, but because my motivation hadn’t actually changed, I was not handling it much […]

Dear Friends: “Exertion is like the fine steel of a sword blade. . . . To truly sever the confusion and duality of the usual mind with Manjusri’s sword of dhyana [concentration] and prajna [wisdom] we must be able to exert this fully, holding nothing back.” – Anzan Hoshin, Tricycle Read More Words of Wisdom […]

Dear Friends: “A wonderful result of letting go is to experience each moment as being enough, just as it is. It allows us to be present for our experience here and now with such clarity and freedom that this very moment stands out as something profound.” – Gil Fronsdal, Dzogchen Center Read More Words of […]

Dear Friends: Minette Layne I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep…. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing […]