Reading Archive (Acceptance)
Go Placidly Amid the Noise and Haste
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be...
Staying In Your Own Business
I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God’s. For me, the word God means...
Giving Somebody Your Heart
In every interaction you have with another human being—doesn’t matter who—you always have two main choices....
Relationships Make You Conscious, Not Happy
With the acknowledgment and acceptance of the facts also comes a degree of freedom from them. For example, when you know there is...
Maybe, Said the Farmer
Once upon a time there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his...
Nothing Else Matters
Stop dead in your tracks. It doesn’t matter at all, what you’ve ever done, or not done. It doesn’t matter how...
Your Life Cannot Go Wrong
In reality, your world is set up so that nothing happens to you, but everything happens for you - for your awakening, for your growth,...
You Play The Piano
The existence, the physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That...
You Carry Your Wound
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is...
How to Live If You're Going to Die
I got a call that a dear friend of mine, who received precepts from me years ago when I lived at Green Gulch, was dying. I arranged with...
I Am Me
I am me. In all the world, there is no one exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly...
The Way of the Water
We have glamorized the way of the warrior for millennia. We have identified it as the supreme test and example of courage, strength,...
Be Love Now
Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You’re being loved even more than your mother loved you when you...
Using Attention in a New Way
One of the things we are trying to do here, is learn to pay attention to seeing what complicates our attention -- where we get caught,...
Watching Volcanoes Explode
We must become deeply aware of our bondage if we value freedom. We begin to watch our behavior throughout the day; we notice the fear,...
The Glass is Already Broken
Once someone asked a well-known Thai meditation master, "In this world where everything changes, where nothing remains the same,...
Not Minding What Happens
J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more...
Not Resisting Resistance
The building where I used to run a meditation group was on the same street as a fire station; one could almost guarantee that sometime...
Can You Love The One Who...
There’s one in you who’s sweet. There’s one in you who’s mean. Can you love them both? Can you let them...
Working With Soil, Attending To Soul
A garden tends to get inside us. If we go there to accomplish something or to get something, the garden soon becomes a burden. With...