MeeMee HeeHee and the Way of the Bodhisattva
For this blog post I pondered: “What is the connection between the life of an artist and the way of the bodhisattva?” This is a provocative question. Western culture often considers the life of artist...
View ArticleGetting Out of the Way
I view everything I do as a creative act; the creativity manifests as poetry, movement, or as color and form. There is creativity also in the way I relate to my daughter, or speak to students, or grow...
View ArticleHow Do You Know If Your Kids Are Buddhists?
Buddhism has been in the West long enough that there are now significant numbers of second and third generation Western Buddhist progeny. The challenge of passing on Buddhism to the next generation is...
View ArticleFamily Life as a Spiritual Path
From my perspective, family life and relationship are among the most obvious and paradoxical of paths on which to practice the dharma. Nowhere are we more triggered nor more loving. In one moment,...
View ArticleNothing Lasts Forever…When You Are A Parent
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post As a mom with young children there were times that life seemed to stand still and I wished it would get moving. I remember thinking that the day my...
View ArticleFamily Relationships: The Gift of An Open Heart
What touches me most about Buddhism is its overt relationship to suffering and how to work with it. When I first started on this path I had the determination to overcome suffering and change the world....
View ArticleMonty Python and The Four Reminders
When I was a teenager in the 70s, we all watched the Monty Python TV show. There was usually a moment in the show when out of nowhere you’d hear a weird blast of French horns and a booming voice from...
View ArticleUsing Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy And Mindfulness Meditation to Overcome...
As a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief, the tenth anniversary of 9/11 gave me the opportunity to contemplate anew working with trauma — including my own. I was an eyewitness in New York...
View ArticleIs Buddhism A Religion? Maybe The Question Itself Is Flawed
This post originally appeared on the Interdependence Blog. As I frequently participate in discussions about whether or not Buddhism is a religion, I realize that the question itself comes from an...
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Contemplative Photography
“Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.” —Chogyam Trungpa Contemplative photography, Miksang photography, provides us a way to see the world with fresh eyes....
View ArticleMindfulness At Work
My most important insights about applying mindfulness to work are grounded in an experience I had as head of the kitchen during a sesshin at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in 1971. Since it was a...
View ArticleMindful Listening: The Music of Thoughts
As a musician, it is second nature to listen intently to other people’s voices and instruments. I listen for the warmth of tone in a wooden instrument or the crisp timbre of a flute, and the feeling in...
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