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At work, regardless of your role, and at home with your family, the point is to try to enjoy what you do. Enjoy how you can have a positive influence. Enjoy your life – even when things are really challenging and messed up.

There is a talk in Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, called No Trace, where he says, “when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind…You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smokey fire.”

Many of us have theories of change and development that often remain somewhat hidden and unconscious. In what ways can meditation and our own theory of change provide a framework for personal growth, goal setting, and self improvement?

Sometimes the best way to learn and grow is to try things and make mistakes, without being stymied by the quest for perfection.

Ancient Zen teachings, modern poetry, and our lives intersect, inform, and most of all point the way to greater appreciation for being alive.

A long-term meditation retreat is a radical act of self-care and self-healing, a radical act of self-discovery (and going beyond the self), and radical act of sanity. Most of all it’s a radical act of love. I just completed a 7-day retreat. I aspire to do one of these...