The Benefits of Standing Meditation
Standing meditation (or Zhan Zhuang) benefits your spiritual practice as well as your health.
Category: Essays
Build A Meditation Habit
I’m launching an online course to help you build a meditation habit!
Exploring Internal Family Systems
When I’ve shared with friends that I’ve been getting interested in IFS, there has been a lot of interest and curiosity. I thought I’d share a little bit about what IFS is, how to practice it, and some resources for learning more.
Unusual Affirmations
I had a lot of fun recently writing custom positive affirmations for my Twitter followers. I’ve shared them below, in no particular order.
On Ender’s Game
I’ve looked to the Ender’s Game series for clarity about difficult topics, like character, psychology, ethics, leadership, and strategy. In this post I’ll tease out certain lessons I’ve found in Ender’s Game about the issues closest to my heart.
The Work of David Loy
In this post, I will review David Loy’s life and work, and attempt to summarize the main claims he makes across his books.
Circling and the Art of Reading People
Over the last couple of years, I have become very interested in the skill of reading other people. Reading people is useful in every area of life that involves other people, which is almost every…
Buddhist Circling
At the Monastic Academy, we are developing our own unique style of Circling, informed by Buddhism and monastic practice.
What is Circling?
Circling is sometimes described as a kind of interpersonal meditation, where the focus space is relationships and social interactions, rather than something like body sensations.
The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
Boyd was one of the greatest military strategists of all time, alongside Sun Tzu and Karl von Clausewitz. In this post, I synthesize my own research and understanding of Boyd’s account of strategy in general.