Could You Meditate in a Casino?

I actually tried this years back. I don’t enjoy gambling and was at a casino with a friend. As I sat there on a stool, bored out of my mind, I began to stare at the clock. In doing so I realized I was clearing all thought and noise from my mind (even in this…

Death, Non-Attachment, Love, and The Coming Times

This is going to be a very tumultuous time coming up here and it is already ramping up. Whether you believe the vaccine works or doesn’t work, should be used, or should be banned, it really doesn’t matter. The fact is that deaths are increasing. Whether they are from the virus itself or from the…

There are No Small Jobs, Only Small People…

My grandmother gave me this wise bit of advice when I had my first job at 15 as a housekeeper at a rural Vermont bed and breakfast. Society promotes the idea that in order to ‘be somebody’, you must hold a high vocation and be paid astronomical sums of money. The truth is – every…

If You Are Having A Hard Time, Please Listen

The world is a mess. A lot of us are having a hard time right now. No two people are going through exactly the same experience and it feels like we are all alone. Having the TV yell at us “we are all in this together” constantly doesn’t help things. For the first time there…