Are you sick and tired of being told who you are, what your problems are, tantalized with the glittering promise of a fabulous solution that you can already tell is just a rehash of things you’ve heard a hundred times before. Over the years, we stopped presenting ourselves exclusively as Buddhist teachers, (‘spiritual’ teachers) and […]

Someone asked me, “What makes a spiritual teacher?” I ask back, “What does ‘spiritual’ mean?” People use the word ‘spiritual’. I tend to avoid it, because I don’t understand the distinction between ‘spiritual’, and whatever its opposite is. After all, isn’t everything connected? Isn’t everything alive? The same is true for the word ‘enlightenment’. There’s […]

.. and how to remember it Yesterday we visited friends in Borrego Springs. One of them has spent a lifetime collecting ceremonial art from two or three remote areas in the world where traditional ways of life still exists. For many years he had traded sculptures, artifacts, canoes, bows and arrows for metal axes, awls, pots and […]

“If I hear one more person talking about my life purpose ,” she said, “I’m think I’m gonna throw up.” “What’s that?” I said. “First of all because we’re here, alive!” She said, opening her hands in a dramatic, almost biblical gesture, with a huge grin on her face,  “ALIVE,  responding, living .. four and […]

Many years ago we had tea with the Dalai Lama. In fact, we spent several days with him and a small group of Western Buddhist teachers in Dharamsala, India . Of all that was discussed, what has remained with me is the story he told us about Atisa, who was one of the first Buddhist […]

“Once in a while you blow your own damn mind.” — Miles Davis. Who will continue the story in the comment section below? “It’s about pushing through,” she said. “The very moment when you think you can’t move another step,” he said, “whether you’re running a marathon, writing a novel, losing every ounce of self respect you ever […]

For all eternity. I forgive you, and you forgive me. ? William Blake Just about everyone we’ve spoken to in the last few weeks is living with a scary or exciting new feeling .. * that they are being called to shake it up * that they want to really focus on the things they value most […]

The Healing Rooms Brain-science and behavioral research only confirms what self-reflective adventurers of the inner landscape, and observant teachers snd healers has know for years, if not centuries. The power of suggestion and the abilities of cues given to the unconscious mind is as great as any other ‘technology’ we know to trigger sustained positive change. It’s little […]

I was in the market. The checker asked if I had any plans for the weekend. I said we were teaching a retreat. He asked what kind. I said magic. His eyes opened wide. I said, it’s the kind of magic that comes out of your mouth, when you’re feeling just about as good as you’ve […]

This recorded call is about, trance, mediation,and monetizing your brilliance through understanding the difference between the two.Trance is more than a magic doorway. It is a pathway to understanding the connection between your conscious mind and your intuition, between your primitive brain and higher consciousness, between frustration and traveling the magical roadwhere your true calling makes […]

Trance is a magic doorway. It may be THE magic doorway, marking the difference between embodying your truth, your calling, your passion, your purpose;or just dancing around the edges of what you know is possible. It’s the difference between wishing and doing, between manifesting and struggling. Trance, by any name, whether it’s acknowledged or not, […]