Since the start of the year, my early morning meditation class has been focusing on the Eightfold Path, the Buddha’s wise recipe for liberation. 

I’ve been wondering about a lot of things lately. I think the throughline might be aging.

I’m excited to share several deeply fulfilling opportunities for inner growth that I have experienced over the past few months. 

In class last week I was reminded of a simple, beautiful teaching I learned when I first started practicing Buddhist meditation and that I’ve never forgotten. 

Six months later, I’m still thinking about something a sangha member said in class early one morning.

Would you name curiosity as an essential ingredient of the spiritual life? It surely is if you’re on the Buddhist path.