Pleasure Comes from Impermanence In Nubri [when I was a boy], I used to love to watch the seasons change — the green summer grasses… Read More »Pleasure Comes from Impermanence

They are Bad. Therefore, I am Good I was able to see that every move I made, from a blink, to a breath, to buying… Read More »They are Bad. Therefore, I am Good

To Be Empty and Everything In the Bodhisattva path there is a stage called omniscience. Omniscience means that you can see everything. But it’s not… Read More »To Be Empty and Everything

Black-nosed Buddha A nun who was searching for enlightenment made a statue of Buddha and covered it with gold leaf. Wherever she went she carried… Read More »Black-nosed Buddha

The Body Keeps the Score “It was at about this time that I met Antonio Damasio at a small think tank that Dan Schacter, the… Read More »The Body Keeps the Score

Transforming Neuroses Through Love and Wisdom “At the inception of Western psychology, when these forces were first being explored, named, and recognized as obstructive patterns,… Read More »Transforming Neuroses Through Love and Wisdom

The Problem Isn’t Somewhere Else When we meditate we see our mind very intimately. So much that we have not wanted to acknowledge comes into… Read More »The Problem Isn’t Somewhere Else

On Difference and Dharma Note: The following is from a 1999 essay by Norman Fischer titled “On Difference and Dharma” In our city streets there… Read More »On Difference and Dharma