Programs and Retreats: Whales, Meditation and Realizing Our Essential Nature.

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A Selection of Essays

What Can We Do To Help The Whales? 2007.
" I think the most critical thing, and it can and must happen right alongside all the practical things that need to be done, is to turn and face ourselves very honestly."

Natural Meditation 2007.
"Natural meditation does not involve trying to attain an extraordinary state of consciousness or quietness, nor does it take extraordinary concentration or training. It is a natural way of being that is inherent in every person."

Me or Not Me? 2007.
"Where does the body begin and where does it end? Where do I begin and where do I end?"

More Is Never Enough 2007.
"The mind tries to fill all the space with itself, so it doesn't have to face its ultimate emptiness, which it can not understand or control. The mind tries to find fulfillment in more, and more, and more. And it can't. It never works."

Eight Spiritual Laws 2007.
"These laws of the spirit emerged over the course of an extended period of solitude. I call them laws, because in my experience they are as ineluctable as the laws of gravity and motion."

On Silence 2007.
"[True] silence is not the absence of noise. It is not the absence of thought. It is not the absence of sound. It is not the absence of feelings in the body. It is not the absence of experience. It is with us, now and always. "