1. Wake with the sun There is no purer light than what we see when we open our eyes first thing in the morning. 2. Sit Mindfulness without meditation is just a word. 3. Make your bed The state of your bed is the state of your head. Enfold your day in dignity. 4. Empty...

Although I suffered from severe depression, I didn’t call it that for most of the several years I was in and out of it. I thought depression was for lethargic people who stayed in bed all day. But my pain was as sharp as an ice pick. Restless in the extreme, I paced...

I have experienced illness, heartbreak, aging, and disability. As a Black, elder, cis-gendered woman, I live with the trauma of social oppression on a daily basis. Like many of us, I’m also profoundly disturbed by the current suffering in the world. In these troubled...

  My birth was not a celebrated and magical event. My parents’ relationship had always been rocky and, sadly, it completely unraveled during my mother’s pregnancy with me. We lived in Bellflower, California, a low-income neighborhood between Long Beach and Compton, in...

‘All Buddha’s teachings end up here.’ Zen Graffiti