This weeks’s topic for reflection is discipline and practice. If you have ever learned to play a musical instrument you are familiar with...

This week’s topic for refection is cause and effect. We all know the law of cause and effect, for every cause there is an effect. In...

This week’s topic for reflection is, what happens when you die? It is often said, “No one knows what happens when you die.” There are...

This week’s topic for reflection is right here on the ground. From the book, “Zen is right here” “A woman told Suzuki Roshi she found it...

This week’s topic for reflection is greed, anger and ignorance. These are referred to as the three poisons and they are the source of...

This week’s topic for reflection is life and death. Being alive, do you view death as an existential threat? Does it seem as though death...

This week’s topic for reflection is beliefs. Please start with your belief about yourself. As Joko Beck said in her book “Ordinary...

This week’s topic for reflection is right effort. Right effort naturally follows last week’s topic, “this moment.” What kind of effort is...

Zazen meditation is training in being present and open in this moment.

Isn’t everything and everyone in this continuous process of transition?

Walking along a volcano.

This week’s topic for reflection is sickness. When I’m healthy, that is my body is healthy, I tend to not be aware of my various systems...

This week’s topic for reflection is hard choices. Choices are not always clear cut where it is easy to see the right thing to do and how...

This weeks topic for reflection is equanimity. My dictionary defines equanimity as mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper,...

Dear Clear Stream Sangha, This week’s topic for reflection is equal. Are you equal? Maybe sometimes you feel better than and sometimes...

This week’s topic for reflection is letting go. Letting go of course is the opposite of clinging. While clinging requires effort, letting...

This week’s topic for reflection is where do you stand? Everyone stands somewhere. Our culture, family, gender, and species all influence...

This week’s topic for reflection is ethics. From where you stand, step into the realm of ethics. Do you have an ethical orientation that...

This week’s topic for reflection is boundaries. To live without boundaries sounds chaotic and necessarily unruly. We need guidelines to...

This weeks topic for reflection is powerful. Do you see yourself as being powerful? If yes, why? If no, why not? What have you been told...