The age old Buddhist saying that life is suffering isn’t far off. F. Scott Peck said that life was full of challenges, and that with discipline, we could meet the moment and solve them. I had a teacher named John Beaulieu who said that life is a process of meeting the...

Just entering into the year of the horse – feels like a strong year, most ambitious in recent time.  I have four Registered Polarity Practitioner programs that I am involved with at the same time,  Japan, New York, Los Angeles and Arizona. I was just in Japan,...

I am having a moment - for me to travel to Japan is a journey. To get here is quite a challenge over time and through my body. I often have resistance to going and getting here. It feels like I am doing the Hero's journey just to come. With all my traveling, the truth...

I arrived at the Kobe airport in early morning on the 2nd of May.  As I reunited with Kyoko, my longtime friend and Japanese emissary, I felt like I was coming home.  So strange to feel so much home here after all these years.  I felt embraced by the land, mountain...

Be the action of your intent and then be open to finding it.  Life is meant to be a creative experience -  spiritually, mentally, emotionally, energetically and physically. I say this all the time, that “I heard spirit talking the other day”, and usually what I mean...

Gifts and blessings - that is what I heard the other day in my meditation - gifts and blessings. I know it is not always fun on the Earth plane and it sometimes feels cruel and unusual.  In the Kahuna way, they have a tradition where they say yes to everything that...

On the beach in the morning, the water was exceptionally glistening in the early sunlit moments of the blue moon descending. I remembered living under the mentorship of Aristotle and how contemplation was the art that opened the doorways to the dimensions of life. ...

Every day is another day, every year is another year, every moment is another moment. As I move into yet the next moment, I contemplate the journey as if it were brand new.  Release the history, give up the associations and enter into the next moment as if it never...

Mist and fog coat the Nihonjin mountain landscape and Zen permeates every moment.  I am totally blessed to be able to live this life and have the opportunity to serve like this. Spirit warms my heart and people innocently awaken my humanity.  Japan offers a broadening...

I have a habit of finding my meditation in the deep purple of night, a throwback from waking at three a.m. for morning meditation. I had a strong conversation with Spirit about taking back my medicine from places that I had left it.  It was a very potent listening and...