What’s the best path? What’s the best spiritual practice, technique or lineage? Well, after much thought, and thirty years of experimentation, I have to say it would be Kasmiri Shaivism, with the practices of Naqshbandi Sufism coming in at a very close second place. Please, I am not being serious here. (Although, I must admit some experiential [...]
Untangle your life
January 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
Yesterday Katina and I, our two kids and Tutu (which means grandmother in Hawaiian) spent a couple of hours strolling in the early evening on Magic Island. I was just waking up, as I worked the previous night. The world for me takes a while to get into focus after a good day’s sleep. [...]
Twenty minutes more or less
January 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
“My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I [...]
your original face
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Hui-neng (638-713), asked “Without making good or bad in that moment, what is your original face before your parents were born?” He is asking us what is our original face before any ideas, images, feelings that you have been carrying like so much baggage. When we look into this question, which means to actually ask [...]
to sit or not to sit
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This issue: to sit or not to sit? Merely stating this issue brings up a legion of other issues, many of which go unchallenged and unrecognized in the awareness of a potential meditator. To tackle one issue inevitably begs other, lateral questions. As an instructor, I am somewhat aware of the dynamics involved in teaching. [...]
goals vs no goals in spiritual practice
February 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
At the beginning and through the initial stages of our practice the goal of practice, and by this I mean activities such as sitting meditation practice, is to discover and gradually establish a condition of ease in body and mind. As we progress on the path, though, goals actually become an obstacle. This is what [...]
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