Quips, Quotes and Quantum Leaps
Being Nature
Dear Friends,
On November 29, a book was reborn.
My 1998 book Buddha’s Nature has arisen again as Being Nature: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, published by Inner Traditions. This new edition includes a fresh look (check out the cover), updated science, and a new foreword by Jack Kornfield.
Being Nature is a journey through the evolutionary sciences and Buddhism, with 
playful meditations and reflective exercises designed to connect us to our identity as earthlings. We are after all, not so much on the earth as we are of the earth– emerged from the earth and its seas, the source to which all life has been traced.
I hope you’ll read the book and have fun exploring your nature as nature!
Books are available in paperback and ebook formats, and you can order through my website or from the publisher.
It’s a joy for me to share this with you, and I hope you’ll be moved to spread the word and share with friends, family, pets, plants … and all beings!
Wishing you peace, health and love in this time of holidays and Solstice,
Wes
PS: On January 29, friends are throwing me an 80th birthday celebration and benefit in person at Spirit Rock and simultaneously on Zoom. We’ll send an announcement soon. Please save the date! I’d love to see you.
Our Down-to-Earth Nature
Atomic Nature
Fish Nature
Buddhists have uncovered at least the basic principles of subatomic physics through their meditation practices. Meditation can reveal that there is no solidity anywhere, that the observer cannot be separated from what is observed, that phenomena seem to appear out of emptiness, and that everything affects everything else in a co-emergent system that scientists have acknowledged and named “non-locality.”
“A milestone in contemporary Buddhism, I dare you to find a book on science that is so personal, or a book on meditation that is so funny and forgiving.” - Joanna Macy
Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Experiencing ourself as part of biological evolution can be understood as a complete spiritual path. The fantastic story of evolving life consciousness contains as many miracles as any bible and as much majesty as any pantheon of divinities.
