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Minus my own features, the screen before me was empty. It was 10:38 am PT on Thursday December 11, 2025. The absence of other faces in the Zoom meeting I had opened ten minutes earlier suggested no one else was coming today.This happens from time to time. On rare...

A recent Online Gathering generated a short discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Like so many platforms, Zoom has introduced an ‘AI Companion’ to it’s smorgasbord of features. When someone noted this seems to have been turned on for us, it was promptly...

I imagine it looks like any old whiteboard to most observers. A busy whiteboard from one perspective. A messy board from another. But a whiteboard, nonetheless.We have been exploring embodiment these past couple months. Returning after a summer away from regular...

When we settle into this embodied moment, our relationship with the basic brilliance in each of us - basic brilliance and all it's helpful qualities - becomes more immediate, more direct, and more transparent.In order to settle into this moment as fully as possible,...

In-person meditation classes recently resumed at Monterey Centre. We came together on a warm Wednesday evening to kick off another season of connection and exploration. How wonderfully affirming that our first night focused on basic brilliance.Basic brilliance (aka:...

The Online Gatherings has taken the summer span to practice a little bit more. At the same time, we have been remembering some of the highlights that emerged in our midst through our Winter/Spring explorations. Each week I've shared one such summary with the...

One never knows when and where bursts of knowing might ignite in our lives. Like an unexpected flash of lightning, they often appear out of nowhere, illuminating the landscape anew for an instant before vanishing - leaving us to sort out just what might have...

Saturday in the Online Gatherings is pretty open. We spend 45 minutes in self-guided practice, then shift into a 35 minute discussion period. We have a rotating set of launch pads for these conversations; start points from which we allow ourselves to wander where we...

I have always suspected meditation brings something important into the world. Whether moved by the beauty of an unexpected moment or the challenges of this time we share, a wordless knowing has always affirmed the relevance of practice to the situation at hand. Only...

I recently transcribed a talk given in the Online Gatherings on Tuesday May 27, 2025. When introducing this in a small ebook, I noted that while it is true I gave this talk, it is not wholly accurate to say I created it.The Online Gatherings came into being in the...

Our basic nature - that innate wellspring of brilliance in our lives - shows up in many ways. In the sudden clarity with which we see a situation. In the heart opening tenderness with which we receive the suffering of another. In our sometimes quiet capacity to bring...

We never know what will arise during our Saturday conversations in the Online Gatherings. We begin with one of five possible 'launch pad' topics and go from there. Sometimes we stay 'on topic'. Sometimes we wander into distant landscapes of exploration and discovery....

A little something different today. Though we typically do not record any part of our Saturday Gatherings, today I recorded the opening ten or so minutes. This is the announcements segment of our time together. It's where I - among other things - offer a short summary...

How do we do it? How do we connect with the much-discussed relational aspect of embodiment in both our practice and lives? How do we find those roots, those connections, that web of affection that links us with others? How does the subtle energy of the sambkogakaya...

A few of us spoke to a sense of being called when the Online Gatherings came together this weekend. In different ways and in differing circumstances, we talked about feeling an inner force pulling us in very clear and particular directions. Which often happens when we...