My work is grounded in nondual awareness. Nondual awareness is the timeless reality of awareness itself, beyond movements of our thoughts, feelings and daily perceptions, yet inseparable from these. It’s the state of being through which liberated beings lived their mature lives—beings like the Buddha, the mahasiddhas of India, and great masters of Tibet and China.
In the West, this possibility is relatively unknown, at least as a totalizing experience through which an entire life enfolds. At the same time, there is a growing interest in postmodern culture of the continuum of present-moment awareness, as the most fundamental reality of our lives.
Many teachers, teachings, paths and practices—Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, Christian, Jewish, eclectic and secular—point us to a vast, limitless expanse; a stillness and silence that permeates every moment of our existence.
My own approach is through Mahayana perfection of nondual wisdom (prajnaparamita); a tradition that is foundational to Zen, Madhyamaka, Dzogchen and Mahamudra. The lineage of my work may not be so evident because I rarely refer to traditional concepts. I have extended the scope of Madhyamaka-style unfindability contemplations into the arena of psychotherapy and integrated this with the result-level approach of Dzogchen.
