Can you remember a time when you whole-heartedly believed what later turned out to be …. a Lie? A Lie, and I mean a really good Lie, must have some aspect of verifiable Truth woven into it, so that it speaks to our core values. When my core values ar... Read more
Yasodhara’s Path, The One Who Stayed
Amid losses that bewilder our counting and our hearts, and without an end date certain, we are in a moment of deep uncertainty. Like you, I am constrained by quarantine, tripped up by conditions I assumed and used to count on. I wonder, what is sacred... Read more
Meditating with baby goats on the Path to Equanimity
In Buddhism, the cultivation of kindness (mettā bhavana) is revered as a practice with many benefits. One fruit of the practice of mettā is equanimity. When equanimous, the heart/mind is steady, even, peaceful, and balanced, supple like bamboo t... Read more
National Day of Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This morning I found myself weeping for our beautiful, heartbreaking world. We’re on the cusp of inaugurating a new president and a historic Black, female vice president. This is a hopeful and exciting moment for our nation. The Presidential Inaugurat... Read more
Spiritual Nourishment of Starlings
https://youtu.be/L8BZmx9zJ1E
This past week, I went north of San Rafael to Terra Linda at sunset to stand in an empty parking lot, looking for starlings. As the light fades, huge flocks of the glossy, black birds swirl high above the trees, streaming a... Read more
Thank You For an Extraordinary Year at InsightLA.
As we bid 2020 a relieved farewell, I want to thank everyone who made 2020 an extraordinary year at InsightLA.
If you were able to come to classes and programs often, thank you for your steady engagement.
If you are part of a regular sitti... Read more
The Starry Night Meditation
This is a time to remember vastness and mystery. The year is ending with a cosmic conjunction unseen on Earth for 800 years. InsightLA held an important community gathering and ritual for letting-go of our Olympic and Melrose centers and envisioni... Read more
Judge yourself accurately
I would call Metta World Peace an alchemist, except there was nothing magical about the hard work he did to transform his troubles into triumph with the help of therapy, meditation, yoga. He stepped out of where he came from into where he truly wanted... Read more
Keeping Enlightenment
Yesterday I received a message written by one of the world’s great epidemiologists Dr. Larry Brilliant urging us to “please, please consider everything we do in light of how dangerous this pandemic is right now”. He and other public health colleagues ... Read more
Video: Beyond the Dilemma: Unpacking Solutions to The Social Dilemma
Since its Netflix release in September, the film The Social Dilemma has been viewed by 38 million people. It speaks of the tech benefits we know while explaining exactly how its design creates unintended suffering and divisiveness caused by social m... Read more