Freshness
by Michael W. Taft I remember how painful boredom used to feel as a teenager. It was crushing. New television shows, movies, and music just felt like rehashings of old ones. New people reminded me of...
View ArticleThe Body as the Direct Path
I first encountered the work of Mike Zittel through his cartoons in an early instruction manual by Shinzen Young. Later I met him and his beautiful wife Marta at a Shinzen retreat, sitting with them...
View ArticleThe Body as the Direct Path, Part 2
Welcome to the second installment of Mike Zittel’s amazing graphic mindfulness instruction series. In this part he starts right up where he left off in Part One, talking about various ways of...
View ArticleTuning Into the Body with Mindfulness
by Michael W. Taft I really like to go dancing. In the Bay Area, where I live, there are a lot of rave-inspired dance events, where I go and dance for hours. The DJs are incredible, the music made for...
View ArticleTake Your Body with You
by Michael W. Taft When I was 33 years old, I became celibate. I had always been extremely open to sex, the senses, and my body. The more I studied meditation, however, and the more I learned about...
View ArticleEmptiness and Fullness: A Story about Stories
by Vincent Horn “The stories that make sense of the world are part of the world. It is not by transcending this world that we are transformed but by storying it in a new way.” – David Loy “Wisdom tells...
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