Reflections pertaining to practice as well as establishing and maintaining presence, through mindfulness, meditation, kriyā yoga, and other forms of inner stillness. Explorations of how awareness deepens and nourishes the heart.
After returning from the Gītā retreat, tears come without warning—neither sadness nor joy, but something true. In teaching, chanting, and questioning, I find myself falling into new territory, without familiar footing yet welcoming what was opening.
Truth, tears, and teaching Read More »
During a ten-day Bhagavad Gītā retreat in Texas, questions were set aside so that listening could deepen. What followed was unexpected — a quiet flow of resonance, and the resurfacing of a buried seed of discord.
The gateway of the Gītā retreat Read More »
Joy reveals itself as an essential factor of awakening. The mind grows quieter, resting in non-doing, as Kochi learns to “Stay.” Injury becomes part of practice.
🎧 Listen: Saṅgacchadhvaṃ — “Let us walk together” (Sanskrit chant, Ṛg Veda X.191)
Silent retreat, week 7: Joyful mind alighting Read More »
A single phrase, stop resisting, lets energy flow more freely. When what arises passes away cleanly, what remains is love. Only love.
Silent retreat, weeks 5-6: Resistance and love Read More »
Resonance between jhāna and kriyā surface, and inner authority deepens.
And the ‘essence’ is what remains when all else fell away.
Silent retreat, weeks 3-4: Resonance and essence (sāro) Read More »
From the fullness of India to the quiet of retreat: these first two weeks were about opening the body, opening the heart, and letting joy settle into stillness.
Silent retreat, weeks 1-2: From India into quietude Read More »
I experience the wonder of the Field, as students, teachers, and practice flow together in love and learning.
Field and flow at Madanapalle, India Read More »
Staying too long in one place reveals the mind’s pull toward attachment. And in the Alps, a rebuffed question and the Buddha’s words to Rāhula — “Develop a mind like the earth” — gives a glimpse into the Dhammapada’s line: ‘all things are mind-made’.
Mind and mountain – an unexpected teacher in the Alps Read More »
Dog-sitting has become an unexpected leg of this homeless journey — a living form of dāna where care, shelter, and gratitude flow freely, with no money changing hands.
Dogs, dāna, and the art of homelessness Read More »
A borrowed campervan, a shifting centre of gravity, and the discovery that home has become not an address but within the heart itself.
Home on wheels, home in the heart Read More »
