What’s your neurosis? Now that Halloween is over, you don’t have an excuse to obsess over candy, costumes, and creepiness, but you still have your neurosis. Neurosis, as defined by the dictionary, is a “relatively mild mental illness not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress… ” You might know it as a behavior like: worrying about the amount of …
Awake in this very moment
“Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom. It’s available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives,” writes Pema Chodron in Comfortable with Uncertainty. I believe the perfect teacher is this very moment. Are you awake? What do you see? This is an experimental series of brief reflections …