Right Now, Just As It Is
My Substack offers an open, down-to-earth, experiential, contemplative exploration of life from a nondual spiritual perspective. It involves questioning all beliefs and certainties, seeing through thought-generated suffering and confusion, questioning the thought-sense of being a separate self and discovering the indivisible wholeness and ungraspable nature of what is. Spirituality, as I mean it, is about finding the wonder, the beauty, the joy, and the love right here in this one bottomless moment from which we never actually depart, just as it is. My Substack articles also include occasional information about new podcasts, books, recommendations, events and anything else I have going on or wish to share.
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I write and talk about the wonder of simply being alive. I have a background in Buddhism, Advaita, radical nonduality and nontraditional meditation and inquiry, but I identify with no particular tradition. I spent time with many different teachers, and was especially close with Toni Packer, a former Zen teacher who left that tradition behind to work in a simpler and more open way. My background also includes somatic work, addiction recovery, political activism, martial arts, and visual arts. I have been a bodyworker, a college professor, a janitor, a barista, a clerical worker, and many other things along the way. In addition to writing books and articles on Substack, I also meet with people on Zoom. I have held public and private meetings as well as occasional workshops and retreats since 1996. I believe everyone has a unique path and that no one's path can be a template for anyone else to follow. In my view, we’re all unique and unrepeatable movements of a single, undivided whole.
You can learn more, including information about my books and individual meetings, and you can find additional writing as well as audio and video on my website:
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