Stephan Bodian 1/2/20 Stephan Bodian 1/2/20

Reflections on the climate crisis

While meditating on the “climate emergency” not long ago, I had the realization—perhaps obvious to some and no doubt…

Stephan Bodian 12/4/19 Stephan Bodian 12/4/19

How do narcissists become spiritual teachers?

This article has been a long time a-birthing. The gestation began nearly 40 years ago, when I put aside my robes as a Zen monk…

Stephan Bodian 12/4/19 Stephan Bodian 12/4/19

The following article, which runs to about 6,000 words, was originally written about a dozen years ago for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review...

Stephan Bodian 11/19/19 Stephan Bodian 11/19/19

This post was originally published as an article in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, with the following subtitle:

Stephan Bodian 10/30/19 Stephan Bodian 10/30/19

Recently, I began wondering about the connection between attachment theory in Western psychology and the Buddhist principle…

Stephan Bodian 9/19/19 Stephan Bodian 9/19/19

Let the landscape be covered with thorny crust…

Stephan Bodian 8/26/19 Stephan Bodian 8/26/19

Many teachers of nonduality—the term itself is ironic, since nonduality, which is after all the nature of reality, can’t be taught…

Stephan Bodian 7/16/19 Stephan Bodian 7/16/19

I found myself reflecting this morning on the mysterious and paradoxical way that Spirit—the timeless, radiant essence of what…

Stephan Bodian 6/19/19 Stephan Bodian 6/19/19

With all the talk in nondual circles these days about the problem of “spiritual bypassing” and the importance of psychological…