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...

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...

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...

On the selflessness of your visual field Ever since restarting my meditation practice with longer (30-60 minute) daily sessions, I have...

Sad and short of breath? Avoiding this feeling won't make it go away. The key insight of Buddhism around suffering are almost...

Missing out on life by playing little vignettes on the stage of the mind The constant distraction of thought offers much to investigate…...

Free-floating consciousness The instructions are very simple and work: be with what is, drop all concepts, don’t grasp what’s pleasant,...

...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,...

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...

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...

A Poem of Persistence Observing the nature of your mind, skillfully filling your mind with intimate experience, being consciousness, is a...

I recently interviewed with Matt Welsh of the Spiritual Media Podcast and covered Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a...

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.

Do we experience consciousness as a field, as a network, from outside our selves?

The self is just a persistent thought — a whirlwind capable of completely overwhelming consciousness.

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.