Web of Wakening

  • On Inviting Rapture

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continue exploring the expressions of joy in the dharma as a way of expanding our ability to meet, hold and transform… Continue reading

    On Inviting Rapture
  • On the Varieties of Joy

    Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your company again at our most recent gathering! In our last session, we began a new series of explorations focused on the expressions of joy in the dharma. Like I shared in… Continue reading

    On the Varieties of Joy
  • On Releasing Hustling

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we shifted our attention to the topic of hustle culture or the paradigm that glorifies long hours, constant work and the… Continue reading

    On Releasing Hustling
  • On Surrendering Convenience

    Dearest Friends, It was deeply nurturing to be in your company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we shifted our attention to the topic of convenience and how the qualities of comfort, ease and expedience have been… Continue reading

    On Surrendering Convenience
  • On Slowing Time

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we turned to the theme of time scarcity—the pervasive sense that there is never enough time. This belief, so common in… Continue reading

    On Slowing Time
  • On Cultivating Awe

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our continuing exploration of the self-transcendent emotions, we turned to awe—the feeling that arises when we encounter vastness, mystery or majesty. Awe resonates with… Continue reading

    On Cultivating Awe
  • On Radical Reciprocity

    Dearest Friends, It was such good medicine to be in your gracious company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we continued our explorations of the self-transcendent emotions, i.e., the emotions that reduce our preoccupation with ourselves and shift… Continue reading

    On Radical Reciprocity
  • On Bodhisattva Vows

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we began a series of explorations on what psychologists refer to as the self-transcendent emotions, i.e., expansive emotions that reduce our… Continue reading

    On Bodhisattva Vows
  • On Transforming Shame

    Dearest Friends, It was delightful to be in your gracious company in our most recent gathering. In our last session, we explored our experiences of ecological guilt, focusing on the suffering that arises when we’re acutely aware of our ongoing… Continue reading

    On Transforming Shame
  • On Alchemizing Anxiety

    Dearest Friends, Thank you for the gift of your presences and your participation in our most recent gathering! In our last session, we explored our experiences of ecological anxiety, focusing especially on how we can work with our anxiety in… Continue reading

    On Alchemizing Anxiety