The Gradual Path Blog
By Dr. Miles Neale
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It's less about taking sides and more about coming together in the middle ground to oppose our common foes, extremism, and violence, wherever they appear.
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We are at a critical turning point in the long odyssey of the 25,000-year comic cycle known to the ancients as the...
Humanity is on the brink of a third world war, and the Arab-Israeli conflict is but one of many complex global challenges we all face. Given the horrific devastation and loss of life, I ask myself the obvious question: are we broken beyond repair?
It’s an existential question that emerged on our re...
OCTOBERÂ NEWSLETTERÂ Â |Â Dr. Miles Neale
THE STUPA, SYMBOL OF UNITY
Dear Friends,
I wanted to include you in the weave of our thoughts and prayers as we conclude our epic three-week pilgrimage to Java and Bali. One symbol has emerged to tie the threads together of my new book, "Return with Elixir," l...
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SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTERÂ |Â Dr. Miles Neale
JOURNEY INTO THE MANDALA
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Dear Friends,Â
In less than a month a group of thirty pilgrims will venture to the largest mandala on the planet led by Geshe Tenzin Zopa and myself. What is the backstory behind this pilgrimage? What is the meaning of the ma...
My family and I are enroute back to the United States for the summer break. It’s been a year since we relocated to Bali, and I’m in a reflective mood. I’m often asked why I left in the first place and what life on the sacred island has been like?
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One reason I left the US was to give my boys the ...
My next book Return with Elixir has found a home and will be published by Inner Traditions late 2023.
Return with Elixir is a guide to conscious death and rebirth drawing of the mythopoetics of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung’s depth psychology, and the alchemical visualizations of Tibetan Buddhism. The...
As we welcome spring after a difficult winter, we turn our sights to the Tsum Valley once again ... bringing a little renewed optimism to our world.
The daytime highs near the Rachen Nunnery are forecasted to be 53 degrees fahrenheit (12 degrees celsius) by the end of March ... as they too look tow...
 In this episode of the Sacred Speaks podcast, Miles Neale talks to host John Price about his early training, teachers, and practice tracing the path of his development as a psychotherapist and teacher of Buddhism.
They discuss the Four Noble Truths, the materialist world view, nihilism, Tibeta...
Part One in a Mini-Series on Death & Rebirth
As I reflect on a term I heard in a documentary yesterday, “reemergence,” a small, delicate object lands on the table. It looks like a leaf or flower. Wind from the fan blows it onto the ground. Something pulls me to look at it again. I pick it up. In my...
Riding alone in the back of a songthaew, a pick-up truck taxi, feelings of red hot anger match the vehicle’s color. Righteous indignation flares in my mind; how dare the driver rip me off! Shame burns right alongside; it’s my own fault for getting in – I could have continued to negotiate or waited f...
Dharma teachings sometimes happen in mysterious ways, masquerading as everyday occurrences or through the behavior of unlikely characters. Several years ago, while working with marginalized populations, a patient taught me a treasured lesson. I was caught off guard when they handed me a package, nea...
Rolling thunder rumbled as I reflected on the number of dead bodies surrounding me. Who had these people been? What were their stories? Did they live with integrity? Were their deaths peaceful or wrought with fear? Who did they leave behind? Looking around at the inscriptions, I recognized many of t...
