David Smart 
When we block boredom,We block creativity.Learning to allow for boredomto enter our experience,allows for creativity to flow.In that moment of boredom,The mind will want to escape,To distract itself from this feeling,And will default to what is easy,the path of least resistance.If we allow the feeling to be as it is,To face and observe boredom,we gain … Read more
If we don’t pay attention,we can allow our practice to become mechanical,to fall dead and dying.Whether it be in our meditation, movement, writing,or even our relationships,the same patterns repeat,things get stuck in the grovesof how they’ve always gone,and the quality of aliveness fades.We can lose our lusterfor that which we already believe to know.This is … Read more
I want to point to just a handful of my favorite conversations from the Waking Up app. I’m not sponsored or anything like that. I just think it’s a great resource. Thanks goes to Sam Harris for creating such a valuable channel. If you’re interested in diving deep into self-understanding through the lens of meditation, … Read more
I’ve found there are many tricks to reduce suffering,but many only scrape the surface.Many try to reduce sufferingby placing attention on different, more pleasurable contentinstead of observing the nature of the content itself.Turning to new content may bring reliefbut understanding the nature of contentis brings understanding. This understanding is forgotten easilyand must be stabilizedthrough deliberate … Read more
After four months of recording, True Nature is now available on audiobook on Audible: Special Offer for New Audible Listeners For the audiobook version, I’ve opted into Amazon’s Audible program, which allows new Audible members to claim three books for free upon sign-up. Begin your free 30-day trial and claim my book for free. Preview … Read more
Back when I attended ten-day silent meditation retreats, I once met a man named Matt. Matt was a young man but an old student, experience which earned him a cushion at the front of the class. A newer student at the time, I sat in the back. I remember peeking around the Great Hall during … Read more
I would like to help those interested in writing and publishing their first book. After self-publishing two books of my own, I would love to help others do the same. Would this be you? Let me know and we can discuss what this might look like. In other news, I’m nearly finished with the audiobook for True … Read more
Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post about the story of my first ten-day vipassana meditation retreat. For those who haven’t already read it, I spent some time rewriting it, cleaning it up, creating a cover, and giving it a title because I think the story is worthy of the effort. It’s called Ten Days … Read more
I once knew this guy who became amazing at lucid dreaming. He thought if he could lucid dream, then he could do all sorts of cool stuff he couldn’t in real life. He said he practiced every day. He journaled his dreams in the morning, looked at his watch every hour throughout the day, and … Read more
After watching hundreds of hours of YouTube videos, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite perspective-shifting YouTube channels. Infamous for its rabbit holes, I’ve lost myself countless times to both the dark and enlightening trenches of YouTube’s video archives. While there’s noise to sift through, I’ve found YouTube to be a deep well rich with … Read more