I had an epiphany last night. After years of working with Brooks, after graduating from his program, after countless private sessions, after all the years I spent on sitting in zazen before I met Brooks, I finally got the most basic, most fundamental, most obvious really, lesson that Brooks teaches. Talk about slow learners!

I received a comment on my post about changing the world. The post stated, more or less, that modifying the system might not be the answer, rather we can simply decide to not be controlled by it. The comment said: “You must be massively rich and do not have to work with any “little” people; [...]

I have been married for nearly 8 years now, and for most of those years I was trying to find out why. Why was I married? If I remove the need factor, the fear of life factor, the need to be supported factor, the need to be safe, protected, taken care of, as well as [...]

Observing different realities is what I’ve been doing a lot lately. As I’m thinking about my book, working on what it is I want to say exactly, thinking through all my ideas and concepts, it seems that everything comes down to knowing who we are? Another way to say the same thing is: knowing what [...]