[2025 November DCTB Mindfulness Tip] As the days shorten, the natural cycle of the Earth calls for us to slow down and go within. Autumn begins to fade into Winter, inviting us to seek our shadows. Inside the supportive womb of darkness, we find the roots of our suffering –…
The ability to project reality belongs to each one of us. The challenge is every single person, no matter how strong or weak, is projecting a version of reality. And as we interact, these projections sometimes merge and other times one gets overwritten by another. We can be swept into…
[2025 October DCTB Mindfulness Tip] In the silence of the mind, rapture erupts. When we practice meditation – true meditation, and not a relaxation exercise – thoughts cease and awareness expands. Within this still pond, waves of elation begin to spontaneously move. Sometimes there is an experience of visual light.…
[2025 September DCTB Mindfulness Tip] Bespoke Buddhism?! Buddhism is based on a well-documented 2500 year old tradition – how dare you call it bespoke! But yes, actually the pathway taught by Buddha Shakyamuni was custom made for each student who appeared before him. We can read the different and sometimes…
[2025 Aug DCTB Mindfulness Tip] In an attempt to make sense of ourselves, the world, and our place within it, we often seek to know “why.” This retrospective analysis results in only a temporary egoic satisfaction. If we look at any situation long enough, the reasoning we came up with…
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…