This is part two of a two-part collaborative post with author Raymond Sigrist. Part one is here. I would first suggest that we very carefully re-read Raymond’s essay. Perhaps you might print it out and keep it some place where you might stumble upon it, perhaps when you are in the grips of confusion or irritation. [...]
Love at ground zero
September 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
A few days ago a member of our sangha wrote asking me to help her get a handle on troubling feelings of anger, despair and confusion. She asks a radically urgent question, radical in the true sense of the word’s roots–the question gets at the root of who we are and how we manifest in [...]
Why a spiritual recession is good for you
June 30, 2010 By 14 Comments
The other day I was re-reading parts of Karen Armstrong’s illuminating autobiography (of sorts–it ends at young adulthood) The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness. Her experiences as a young nun in England struck a chord, particularly the shock of re-entering the world and dealing with her religious brainwashing in the convent. But Karen’s [...]
the sweet in the bitter
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
One of the turning points in our spiritual practice happens quite unexpectedly, as they always do, when an uncanny feeling of wholeness creeps up on you in the most surprising contexts. All recurring feelings of remorse and failures seem somehow resolved. Nothing dramatic, really. This is a quiet joy where once there was quiet desperation. [...]
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