May 19, 2022
After we had been speaking for a little while, Mahesi Caplan said:
"This might be an outrageous thing to say, but over the past few
decades, I have been having this thought that there is no
death."
He went on to say, "Of course, the body dies."
And then he discussed this whole concept of we don't die so much as we...
May 16, 2022
Mahesi Caplan was interested in the big questions at an early age. When others were on the playground, young Mahesi was sitting on the stairs wondering where he had come from, and what was the meaning of this life?
He felt a connection with something much more expansive, something that exists beyond the noise of...
May 5, 2022
One of the first things that struck me about my discussion with Ratnadevi is how she noted that there were so many different examples of impermanence that we could work with. She knew that her mother was dying. We are wherever we are with the pandemic, our climate is in crisis, and Ukraine is under attack. These are...
May 2, 2022
Apr 21, 2022
After spending time with Hector Marcel, one of my biggest takeaways was the sense of being in the presence of someone who is joyfully in his practice. This overall feeling of sharing a space with a person who is willing to discuss the challenges we face with impermanence and suffering and who like the rest of...