Precious Consciousness
Treat with Care Recently, I’ve not been able to fall asleep until hours after I’ve lain down in bed. I’m not having particularly profound...
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Oct 20, 20222 min read
In the thick of it
Mindfulness only works, when it works If there is a place where my mindfulness practice does not reliably go—it is into the thick of...
Sep 27, 20222 min read
Space for Others
On Self-Consciousness Next time you are alone in a crowd, do a little meditation and record how you feel. You are alone of course, the...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
An itch... in the middle of the room
On the selflessness of your visual field Ever since restarting my meditation practice with longer (30-60 minute) daily sessions, I have...
Sep 15, 20222 min read
The Aversion Constrictor
Sad and short of breath? Avoiding this feeling won't make it go away. The key insight of Buddhism around suffering are almost...
Sep 13, 20222 min read
The Dream Scenes of Small Thoughts
Missing out on life by playing little vignettes on the stage of the mind The constant distraction of thought offers much to investigate…...
Jul 20, 20222 min read
Meditation is a self-deprivation tank
Free-floating consciousness The instructions are very simple and work: be with what is, drop all concepts, don’t grasp what’s pleasant,...
Jul 13, 20221 min read
Being with what is
...and being what is It is a simple yet profound instruction: just be with what is. Before concept. Don’t label things. Don’t think,...
Jul 6, 20222 min read
Erasing the Boundaries of Self
A headless-and-shoulderless practice What does it mean that there is no self or that the goal of mindfulness is to understand your true...
Jun 22, 20222 min read
In Your Head
A non-duel with headlessness Last night (and not for the first time) I was mindful while staring into the overlapping branches of a few...
Jun 16, 20221 min read
Practice
A Poem of Persistence Observing the nature of your mind, skillfully filling your mind with intimate experience, being consciousness, is a...
Mar 14, 20211 min read
Spiritual Media Podcast
I recently interviewed with Matt Welsh of the Spiritual Media Podcast and covered Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a...
Dec 29, 20209 min read
Excerpt: Meaning in the Multiverse
An excerpt from the first chapter of "Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a Loving Cosmos." Presale now & on shelves 2/12/2021.
Aug 8, 20202 min read
Is Consciousness an Innie or an Outie?
Do we experience consciousness as a field, as a network, from outside our selves?
Apr 15, 20207 min read
The Whirlwind of Ego
The self is just a persistent thought — a whirlwind capable of completely overwhelming consciousness.
Mar 31, 20202 min read
The Context of Reality
The deeper meaning of the Zen Garden for me on that day was not that it is not a garden at all but that I was not an observer.
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