I am surprised by the number of people I meet in person and online who have never stopped to consider the nature of their thoughts or beliefs. What seems to be much more common is that people’s minds are dragging them around, back and forth through life experiences, and they assume that all those thoughts and beliefs that arise are correct, important, and worth defending. Continue reading “Exploring the Mental Experience” »

The dictionary defines relationship as the connection one object has to another.  It’s simply the connection. Yet, in our minds, relationships grow to be a huge embodiment of emotion, rules, assumptions, and expectations. Continue reading “Reality of Relationships” »

I’ve read in many Buddhist books that we are not our thoughts. This was a difficult concept for me to grasp or accept. But the Buddha did not expect us to simply accept, but instead to see for ourselves, to investigate by watching our own minds. The tool to do this is through meditation. Continue reading “Thinking, Thinking, and Thinking” »