This site is intended to be a basic reference for mindfulness, meditation, Buddhism, and some related contemplative topics. It started as a portable collection of personal notes and has grown with new sections added based on feedback, conversations, readings, previous study and contemplation, and ongoing practice.
What Would Buddha Do? and What Would Jesus Do? can be useful tools when we consider thoughts, words, actions, and experiences. Thus, the site explores these questions, directly and indirectly, and can perhaps provide some insights into how these questions might be answered if one is so inclined to look at them with curiosity.
What Would Buddha Do?
The simplest answer to "What Would Buddha Do?” might be to act with full awareness such that any action was rooted in non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion. In that framework, the result is to perform the most 'skillful' action possible—one that minimizes harm and dismantles the cycle of suffering for all involved, rather than serving the ego. This involves awareness, being present, being mindful, in the Now.
What Would Jesus Do?
The simplest answer to “What Would Jesus Do?” might be “Love without filters (unconditionally).” While Buddha’s path is to see reality without filters of conditioning, the Jesus path is to engage with that same reality without the filter of judgment or preference. This also involves awareness, being present, being mindful, in the Now.
The Shared Path
Both paths strip away the "self" that divides the world into me vs. you or good vs. bad. To love without filters is to extend the same regard to a stranger or an enemy (or all beings) as one would to a family member—removing the conditions of relationship, status, merit, or personal benefit. It is the active, objective, and total recognition that the 'other' is not separate at all.
This site is not intended to be a substitute for psychiatric or medical advice (read website disclaimer), and it is not intended to convert anyone to Buddhism or any other ideology. Its purpose is to share “stuff" that may be worthy of investigation, support inward reflection, help navigate this thing we call life, and, perhaps, ease suffering- whether you are religious or not religious.
A secondary purpose is an attempt to provide the clarity that nobody has a monopoly on God, salvation, enlightenment, or similar concepts. When these are monopolized, the meaning beyond the words is lost; they become weaponized and, rather than alleviating suffering, they serve as sources of it. The radiant source of being within is not something to be externally monopolized.
The material here is basic overviews, and there are many resources out there to explore everything here in much more depth if you are so led. Feel free to peruse the menu from beginning to end or just look at a page or two that may be of interest.
At some point in my life, I have studied or practiced most of the material here, and while I may incorporate material here into my life, I am not a therapist nor do I consider myself a Buddhist or an authority on the any of the material included here.
If you go through the site, you may notice overlapping themes. These were written at different time points, and some content may be reflective of an evolution in understanding and/or learning how to use language to better convey meaning.
Some material here is verbatim from the references listed or the linked resources and I have utilized AI tools to revise the site. I am extremely grateful to those whose work is included, cited, or linked, and I apologize for any typos, errors, inconsistencies, omissions, faulty links, etc.
We all have our own journeys. If yours has led you here, may you find something that benefits you. As the sayings go, 'Come and try, see for yourself,' and 'Tend to the garden of the mind.' I invite you to explore the site—keep what serves you, and let go of what does not.
