This week’s topic for reflection is color your life. Please remember some of the key and beautiful times of your life. Who were the...

This week’s topic for reflection is fear. Fear is a strong, powerful word. Severe fear that causes trauma can lodge itself deep in one's...

This week’s topic for reflection is the way seeking mind. The way is your spiritual path. It is the way of a meaningful life and its...

This week’s topic for reflection is curiosity. Curiosity is essential in living a full and satisfying life. In order to be truly free we...

This week’s topic for reflection is freedom. Some people think freedom is controlling the situation so they can do and be what they want....

This week’s topic for reflection is how to hear the birds sing. A clinical psychologist questioned Suzuki Roshi about consciousness. “I...

This week’s topic for reflection is self confidence. How much confidence do you have in yourself? Arrogance is different being more self...

This week’s topic for reflection is feeding hungry ghosts.  A hungry ghost is any being that wants something it can’t have. I see this as...

This week’s topic for reflection is grace. Pope Francis died this morning. I heard a Cardinal on NPR say that grace was very important to...

This week’s topic for reflection is sanity. The state of mind/body I’m referring to is not dependent on the situation you find yourself...

This week’s topic for reflection is stepping forward. This past weekend I was told by the teacher leading the Zen retreat he wanted me to...

This week’s topic for reflection is anger. Anger is one of Buddhism’s three poisons along with greed and delusion. It is said these three...

This week’s topic for reflection is where do you stand? We are all unique and we all stand somewhere different in relationship to our...

This week’s topic for reflection is diversity, equity and inclusion. My intention is to introduce this topic not from a political point...

This weeks’ topic for reflection is change and impermanence. So let’s make this personal. What belongings did you have in your childhood?...

This weeks’ topic for reflection is differences. Take a moment to reflect on all the differences. Start with yourself or your body. There...

This weeks’ topic for reflection is reflection. What is it to reflect? There is the activity of reflection on something, for example a...

This weeks’ topic for reflection is equanimity in the midst of loss and gain. Equanimity’s place is between joy and sorrow, gain and...

This weeks’ topic for reflection is, adversity as a growth opportunity. It’s not unusual for life to throw us a curve ball. Sometimes we...

This weeks’ continuing topic for reflection is karma. Karma is similar to cause and effect yet different. Cause and effect follows the...