Author and musician Miguel Chen comforts a practitioner who doesn’t seem to be getting any closer to enlightenment.
I’m not enlightened yet. What am I doing wrong?
Miguel Chen breaks down how setting lofty goals for our spiritual practice only creates more obstacles.
How to Get Lost — and Found — in Music
Music connects us to the present moment like nothing else, says Teenage Bottlerocket bassist Miguel Chen. In this excerpt from his new book, I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too, coauthored with LionsRoar.com editorial director Rod Meade Sperry, Chen explains how to really listen to music. Playing shows, writing songs, recording […]
Why Punk & Buddhism Beats “Us Vs. Them”
I’m a musician, a punk rocker, a Buddhist of sorts, a yogi. Most of all, I consider myself an individual.