Fall is coming here in Maine. I can feel it. It’s been a few weeks I can sense the change; although we will still get some hot days this week. So interesting to have the evenings and nights cooler. There is a mixed feeling of pleasure and darkness with fall and winter around the corner. […]
Category: awareness
Sharing the Path: My Tour of Mindfulness
Mindfulness has always come easily to me, or I should say I’ve been drawn to it for a long time. The concept of “what is” made sense to me in my early 20’s when having a discussion with my father about goals in life. We were having some conversation at my grandparent’s house, about what […]
Sharing the Path: Politics and Reality
I have often wondered how my background academic educational career in International Relations connects to the part of me that writes books on the body, mindfulness and philosophy. We are used to compartmentalizing different fields and pursuits instead of seeing them as part of a whole. It has only been in light of the recent […]
Under the Effort
Under our mental and muscular effort we see our body in the space, weight falling onto some surface, bones moving in some capacity. Under our mental and muscular effort we realize our body is already in some specific action, doing something. Under our mental and muscular effort we understand what real action is […]
True Nature
True nature is what is, not what we believe should be (if it’s not what’s happening). We must abide. There are no options other than what nature provides. Bad guys are part of nature. They exist equally to all else. When they will be gone, we will know because we will see. Movement is movement. It all […]
Alan Watts: short and sweet
This is a wonderful little clip that describes precisely what I write about in my books and on this blog. I hope you will have a listen! Book Information
Your Life Is Set
Your life is set, like a table. You are always there, here, in a place among other things, people, surfaces. You can brace against that physical life-setting by tensing your muscles and fighting in your thoughts, or not. Either way, you are still occupying that space, physically (like part of a table-setting), in a room, […]
What’s the Matter?
Your body is simply where it is. You can see this. And, here it is again, with the next stroke of the clock. There was nothing to do to make that progression of time or presence in space happen. No effort. This is how our whole life will be, never anything more complicated, even if […]
Now Actions
Your future actions will occur the same way as your past actions, since they are both just your now actions.
Absent of Meaning
Where we find our body is the only place it can be. There is no other possibility of action for any given moment. This removes choice in the way we generally think of it. Without the option of choice, we are left with the physical conditions of our body and its activity, no differently than […]
