by Bert Seager | June 29, 2026 | Blog
Dear friends, In reflecting on the need to open to the vast suffering in this world right now, I sense and am grateful for the heart’s natural response, the arising of compassion. and simultaneously, the knowledge that I cannot take for granted my extreme good fortune...
by Bert Seager | August 31, 2025 | Blog
In 2001, Narayan Helen Liebenson, the founding teacher of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center wrote and illustrated a little book called “Life as Meditation.” In 2009, for a holiday gathering (talent show) I performed a song that I wrote based on some of...
by Bert Seager | July 28, 2025 | Blog
What a funny expression, “gone to seed” – does it mean that something is “past its prime,” or “over the hill?” The marsh grass in Ipswich is not quite as vibrantly green as was two weeks ago. The tall stalks have many slender seeds which soon will...
by Bert Seager | June 23, 2025 | Blog
I’ve just released a new album of original music recorded in early May with my band “Heart of Hearing.” The album, called “Kindness,” has nine of my original songs that I am grateful to be able to share with you here. It is also available on all the major streaming...
by Bert Seager | May 1, 2025 | Blog
The lilacs in our postage stamp-sized backyard are peaking in the depth of their color and fragrance today. It seems like spring happened overnight. The world seemed to turn from black and white to living color so suddenly this year. But of course the plants and...