Author: Michael Stevens

A very long time ago there was a young man who was very interested in a beautiful young woman. He was always trying to get her attention, but she never seemed to notice him....

We we studying Longhenpa’s You Are the Eyes of the World during our Wednesday evening gatherings. It is a translation of the Jeweled Ship, a distillation of a larger work on dzogchen, the natural great...

What’s it like to be sealed inside a coffin while being subjected to horrendously loud sound and electromagnetic radiation? That is an MRI (magnetic resonance imagery). I sometimes wonder about our health care system....

I have a pinched nerve in my lower back and I am awaiting an MRI to determine if there is a herniated or damaged disc. In the meantime, I manage the pain as best...

I am waiting in the checkout line at Costco which is some of my best meditation and reflection time. I have an opportunity to view a sea of facial expressions and body language rippling...

TMI—the abbreviation for ‘“too much information” is an apt descriptor for the affliction many experience in studying Vajrayana Buddhism. This tradition seems so complex with all the three of these, the four of those,...

Many years ago I wrote a book entitled, An Idiot and His Companions. It was compilation of essays about people and experiences that had a profound influence on my life. The book never saw...

As we have explored many times, the bardos are those “in between” moments of awareness. Traditionally there are six bardos: birth, this life, the dying process, the space between death and rebirth, sleep/dreams, and...

Carol Rim in the Painted Hills unit of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is one of our pilgrimage places. We travel there annually and hike the trail as spring wildflowers begin to show...

A scale house is a shelter for an outside scale apparatus that weighs and/or measures various things for a railroad, farm, or other freight business. More common in ages past, one can still see...