Right Now, Just As It Is
My Substack offers an open, down-to-earth, contemplative exploration of present experiencing from a nondual perspective. It involves questioning all beliefs and certainties, seeing through thought-generated suffering and confusion, and discovering the indivisible wholeness and ungraspable unresolvability of what is. My Substack articles also include occasional information about new podcasts, books, 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.
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