
Notes from the field of lived practice, viewed through the lens of embodied immediacy, tantric view, and unfiltered aliveness. What I’m working with. What breaks and what holds.
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This week’s regular Open Field Substack Live is being replaced by a free 90-minute workshop on Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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Much of our personal, interpersonal, and spiritual work is not only to tolerate the intensity of openness and uncertainty without falling into convenient, distracting formulas, but to hang with basic cognizance and notice that it permeates...
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The spiritual-industrial complex and the theater of internet authority
A note: The Field has a new brand and website, made in collaboration with designer and writer Frank Chimero. We kept asking whether online Buddhist design could carry s...
and whatever is said
in the world, or forgotten,
or not said, makes a form.The choice is simply,
I will—as mind is a finger,
pointing, as wonder
a place to be.— Robert Creeley, from The Finger
The...
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Essays on practice, perception, and creating from a place of immediacy and open-heartedness. Reflections from the living field of contemplative practice and how awakening renders in ordinary life. Founder: https://thefield.us
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