Profile:

I am a Buddhist and writer living in the heartland of America. I grew up on a farm and spent a large amount of time outside and in the woods, a childhood I would not trade for anything. I've been writing since I was 14 years old after a teacher encouraged me to never stop. I am inspired by the works of Thich Nhat Hanh, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Ralph Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Marcus Aurelius, Viktor Frankl, Jane Goodall, Kahlil Gibran, Sam Harris, and the list goes on. I read and write about various topics including Buddhism, suicide awareness and prevention, nature, astronomy, genealogy, behavioral health and psychology, environmentalism, politics, as well as some fictional writing.

Posts by Kēphen:

• Liberation and a Return to the Sacred
• The Perfect Life
• Love Me Not
• Chasing the Westward Sun
• Life After
• The Past That’s Not Forgotten
• In the Twilight of Memory
• Out of the Darkness
• U.S. Behavioral Health and the Workplace
• Prajñāpāramitā Part II: The Heart of Insight