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About
To Inspire Confidence
Through my own practice of true meditation, the kindness of my teachers and a spontaneous moment of grace, I stumbled upon the realization of the true nature of Being. I teach solely on my own authority.
The Key
The key to all unlearning of the beliefs and habits of our conditioning, the cause of our suffering, is to stop!
Stopping the habitual need to control our experiences. This control manifests as what the Buddha called grasping and aversion. This constant habit of grasping onto the experiences we want and avoiding the ones we don't, is the engine that feeds the ego, better said, it is the ego, this movement.
So the end to suffering and stress begins with our willingness to stop, to step back from this habit. From there the practice of calm abiding in the awareness of all experience, begins the dynamic, innate process of unlearning.
Unlearning answers all questions, not by analysis and striving, but by creating the space in our minds for the realization of the truth to arise.
My Short Story
My father was an American diplomat, so I grew up in South America and Europe. I returned to the US for college, attending Denison University for four years. My interest in meditation and spirituality came directly out of my study of Beat poetry, philosophy and the history of man’s inhumanity to man.
Suffering from the political and social disillusionment of the times, I went directly from college to the remote Andes where I studied yoga, macrobiotics, Gurdjieff and other forms of esoteric trivia, imitating the simple lifestyle of a hermit. After three years I moved to New York to study with Oscar Ichazo and the Arica School where I was introduced to the essential teachings of all the major traditions, and received my first training in teaching meditation and other awareness based exercises.
However, none of this wonderful education freed me from the source of my suffering as I had hoped, and I continued to stumble compulsively through life until I met my Tibetan Buddhist teacher in 1997. Sweeping me up with hook of his compassion, he reintroduced me to Big Mind with exquisite teachings of the highest Dzogchen lineage.
As a result, I experienced the dissolving of contradiction in my conditioned mind between my spiritual and worldly views, and found a measure of peace. It is this understanding that inspired and informs my work. There is no contradiction between our work life and spirituality, between our inner and outer life. It is all one.
In 2002 I made a decision to find a way to express this clarity in my work in the world. I returned to NYC and since that time I have guided others in the efficacy of directly experiencing the truth of reality, as it is.
I am inspired to continue to study and work on myself. I go on meditation retreats periodically with Open Gate or Rangrig Yeshe Sanghas. It is my intention that by these efforts I might continue to wake up from the illusion of my own conditioning and embody the realization of the truth, and thereby ease my suffering and that of others in some small way.
I am blessed with a beautiful daughter, a loving family and supportive friends who tell me the truth. In the end, I hope to have written a few good poems and learned to truly Love.