Get off anti-depressants ...and you weren’t born with a neurological deficiency. When you were little, you bit on thoughts because you were curious. It took years of hard work to develop the thinking habit . Biting on thought... anxiety soul thoughts Aug 28, 2025 0 26 An opinionated view on meditation
You are better than AI AI is amazing, but it’s just statistics . It’s just the fanciest statistics you’ve ever seen. Did you know that AI is literally a file sitting on a hard drive filled with numbers?—albeit a staggering ... AI consciousness soul Aug 28, 2025 0 17 An opinionated view on meditation
The soul I’m referring to “the soul” in the sense of the poets and mystics—the eternal part of yourself. Simple. Not in the sense of the religionists—such as stories and superstitions. As a former monk I can h... monkhood soul Aug 23, 2025 0 29 An opinionated view on meditation
What happens to religion when everyone gets a spiritual experience? Religion has failed in such a fundamental way, that no one expects religion to provide a direct, inner, spiritual experience. Religion has taken the mantle as “belief provider”, not “experience provid... consciousness religion soul Jul 5, 2025 0 8 An opinionated view on meditation
Why you must reconnect to your soul self (A Covid-era spiritual lulaby) I realize everyone is burnt out from working at home, feeling disconnected, and probably even burnt out from the burnout. Through it all, I’ve been wanting to say there’... meditation soul thoughts May 11, 2021 0 6 An opinionated view on meditation
Breaking “The Perception Bubble” You live in a perception bubble. What I mean is that the eyes, made up of the world, can only see the world. The ears, made up of the world, can only hear the world. The brain, made up of the world, c... consciousness meditation soul Aug 17, 2020 0 6 An opinionated view on meditation
The absolute stability of the soul <...news reports of imminent war...> I know. The world isn’t offering up a lot of reasons to feel totally at ease right now, isn’t it? Even with my monk training under my feet, when I listen to what t... anxiety peace soul Jun 22, 2020 0 10 After my course
Meditators get to choose how long they suffer When I wrote the “ Sometimes life hurts ” blog post, that was when I got side-swiped by an emotional panic that I had not experienced when I was a monk or even since. What happened is that I woke up t... meditation peace soul Dec 12, 2019 0 8 After my course
Just what are we doing again? As you meditate—at least the way that I teach it—and expand awareness past the drama of your thoughts into the stillness of your soul , the 5th state of consciousness— witnessing consciousness— inevit... consciousness meditation soul Aug 11, 2017 0 7 An opinionated view on meditation