Writings
Glimpses of the Gatherings
While drawn from a variety of sources, most of these writings originate in the Online Gatherings – affording readers glimpses into this affecting community.
More Than A Whiteboard
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...
The Role Of Imagining
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...
Mindfulness And Empowerment
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...
A Summary Of Summaries
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...
Comments And Lightning Bolts
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...
Familiar Reminders
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...
An Updated Bio
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....
A Teaching Quilt
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 Absorbency Of Embodiment
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...
A Meditating Community
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...
The Meditator’s/Artist’s Way
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...
How Do We Do It?
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...