Reading Archive
Doubt Cannot Be Solved By More Thinking
It’s the tendency to doubt, to waver. Of course, when you doubt, waver, or are uncertain, then the focus will be on the teachings,...
Be Silent Together
“We do not know each other yet, we have not dared to be silent together.” What a priceless possession is the gift of speech!...
Landlocked In Fur
I was meditating with my cat the other day and all of a sudden she shouted,“What happened?!” I knew exactly what she...
Let's Get Back To Work
For what it’s worth, in my world the only thing that truly helps to assimilate all of this into something that moves beyond mere...
Where The Longest Light Meets The Gathering Dark
Across the living world, abundance and decay, flourishing and loss, are braided together in an intimacy our industrial myths have taught...
Collecting Leaves And Stories
For many years my walks have taken me down an old fencerow in a wooded hollow on what was once my grandfather’s farm. A battered...
Apology Is An Act Of Love
A real apology asks us to surrender our attachment to innocence, to see ourselves clearly as people capable of causing harm and capable...
Dust If You Must
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be betterTo paint a picture, or write a letter,Bake a cake, or plant a seed;Ponder the difference...
Taking A Seat At Life’s Kitchen Table
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much...
From The Mind To The Heart
Our mind is not our enemy. It is a sacred gift. It helps us think, question, imagine, and understand the world. But the mind is not the...
Helping In
Many of us, for whatever reason, have some kind of inborn desire to help others, to make the world a better place. It seems pretty clear...
The Higher Teaching: Take A Vacation
A meditation student once went to the mountains, hoping to find silence. He rented a small cabin near a stream, thinking the sound of...