In case you prefer to read rather than listen or watch videos, I’ve posted the transcript of my latest video below. I’ve been watching the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic unfold in both the inner and physical worlds. I’m sorry to say it appears this is only the beginning of what might…
In early February, I had the honor of spending my Teacher’s birthday with 150 people from my spiritual tradition. As the event planners, my team and I managed every detail to create an experience we hoped would inspire deeper practice and encourage people to work together and learn from each…
During his teaching career, Rama ordained us as monks of the Rae Chorze Fwaz lineage of American Buddhism. In his book, Surfing the Himalayas, he introduces the enigmatic Master Fwap as the last living descendent of the Rae Chorze Fwaz, a Tantric Mystery School. Buddhist scholars have been quick to…
Suffering is pervasive in people from all walks of life throughout this world. While we cannot rescue anyone, there is much we can do to ease the suffering of ourselves and others. One of the deepest causes of suffering is the views we cling to. A powerful way to break…
Through the conditioning we’ve received from the time we are born, we’ve been sold a lie. This deceit is reinforced through advertising and popular music and television shows and movies and social media and more. Nearly every aspect of our social world trains us to believe we need to be…
With instant access to news around the world, we are bombarded by all the horrible things people do to one another. The poisons of anger and hate are poured into our minds daily by the media, along with a good dose of greed provided by advertising carefully designed to inspire…
The physical world is supported by a complex web of energy lines. Each of these lines has their own vibration, their own feel, their own temperature. As we move about and interact with the world, we are also moving through and interacting with this subtle-physical level of existence composed of…
We are creative beings. Our entire physical and subtle-physical structures are designed to create through the endless transformation of matter and energy. We cannot help but create! This is both our blessing and curse. We have this innate ability to design and explore endless experiences in samsara, but that same…
Near the end of a project, especially a writing project, I find myself so engrossed everything else in my life lands on the back burner. This time was no different. When I committed to an early December release date for my next book, I dove in head first and didn’t…
In every system, there are lynchpins … points holding the system together. On the path of spiritual development, we discover these lynchpins as we uncover the attachments which keep us acting out our habitual patterns. As we explore the inner reaches of our mind, we find the ways we perpetuate…