One curious thing about the mind is its ability to automatically reset to default settings. When we are distracted or when we are blown off balance, after the initial freak out, we return to where we most often rest our attention. This is an important key for those of us…
[2025 June DCTB Mindfulness Tip] To keep our physical life running smoothly, there is much maintenance that must be done. Likewise, to stay connected with our spiritual life, we must do our inner maintenance. If approached with mindfulness, these tasks can often overlap. Success in our practice relies on discipline.…
[2025 May DCTB Mindfulness Tip] Within each of us there is always a pull to action, otherwise known as our karmic duty. Karma is an elegant system of continuous creation. Every moving piece within creation has a duty – a pull to action that arises in response to the system…
[2025 April DCTB Mindfulness Tip] There are many Buddhist schools around the world who trace a lineage of physical teachers back to Buddha Shakyamuni. Their path is one of ancient footprints, each generation stepping into the grooves created by those who walked before them. Trikaya Buddhism is not one of…
The path is a spiral, drawing us back to familiar situations yet we see them from a different vantage point. As we move from one level of the spiral to the next, we pass through old karmas in the form of behaviors and mental habits. Before the final release of…
In Trikaya Buddhism, there are seven Days of Power. While we sometimes celebrate days that are significant in other traditions, these particular days have a special importance to our path. First, what is a Day of Power? A Day of Power occurs when an access point to a certain type…
While we each must walk the Path on our own, to fully embody spiritual growth, it takes a village. In many Buddhist books, there is the recommendation to go to an isolated mountain retreat – in other words, to leave everyone and everything and focus only on practice. It’s true,…
[2024 December DCTB Mindfulness Tip] There are innumerable pathways to Enlightenment, which gives us many options to explore. Spiritual shopping is fun and a necessary prerequisite to serious study. However, in order to successfully find our way through the confusion of Samsara – of cyclic existence, we need to pick…
[2024 November DCTB Mindfulness Tip] To make progress on the spiritual path – or in any endeavor – consistency is essential. Consistency has a dual meaning and both connotations are important to consider. The Oxford Dictionary defines consistency: con·sist·en·cy /kənˈsistnsē/noun 1. conformity in the application of something, typically that which…
[2024 October DCTB Mindfulness Tip] Life is change. And with change comes confusion. Sometimes this confusion is mild and evaporates quickly. Other times we become mired in it, swirling around and around. But in any case, confusion always precedes clarity. It’s tempting to want to jump past the confusion state.…