Ruining It for Everyone Else

  This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend my first Zen retreat. I say, opportunity, because when you're a full-time mom g...

For the first week since February, I have failed to make a post. Circumstances have made it suddenly obligatory that TheLordofDarkness and...

Even from when I was very young, I always felt I had a sort of instinctual spirituality. My zealously religious mother drilled into me th...

I do not pretend to be a zen master or teacher. I use the term "enlightnment" here as general movement toward a more natural ex...

I recently read a post on reddit's polyamory board about a woman who was upset that her long time boyfriend couldn't or wouldn...

‘I am unhappy and I must be happy.’ In that very demand that I must be happy is unhappiness … When you demand an experience of truth or...

Sitting Upright No Matter What Whatever appears Sit upright in it, Neither hoping You can endure, Nor fearing you can't. Just ...