In many areas of practice, there is a widely held belief that doubt is an obstacle on the spiritual path. Doubting the teaching. Doubting your practice. Doubting your feelings. Sometimes doubting what you believe you are seeking. Throughout my own journey, several teachers have encouraged me to be wary of this doubt—to see it as a form of resistance. In order to progress, they say, one must surrender completely to something greater than oneself. One must trust. One must adhere. One must...

The mourning of the fig tree downstairs I realized one day that the fig tree in the square below my house had been cut down. This tree,...

Considering the current environmental challenges and the observation that individual, social and political reactions are too slow to...