Reading Archive (Mindfulness)
He Who Accumulates Cannot Learn
It seems that communion is a very difficult art. To commune with one another over the many problems that we have requires listening and...
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...
Everything Is Waiting For You
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no...
Social Intelligence
One day, late for a meeting in midtown Manhattan, I was looking for a shortcut. So I walked into an indoor atrium on the ground floor of...
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...
Why Are We Running Out of Time?
Technology itself is not the cause of our problem of time. Its influence on our lives is a result, not a cause -- the result of an unseen...
Technique of the Dance
Relationship is not strangled by claims. Intimacy is tempered by lightness of touch. We have moved through our day like dancers, not...
The Great Tragedy of Speed
Speed in work has compensations. Speed gets noticed. Speed is praised by others. Speed is self-important. Speed absolves us. Speed...
Developing Mindsight
Oftentimes people hear the word mindfulness and think “religion,” but the reality is that focusing our attention in this way...
Fearlessness
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is...
To Be On A Spiritual Path
"To be on a spiritual path means to live mindfully, paying attention to the signs along the road and being conscious of our body...
Clouds In Each Paper
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain;...
How Is Your Heart Doing?
In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, Kayf haal-ik? or, in Persian, Haal-e...
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,...
Get a Life
There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what...
Unencumbered By Thought
There is a process for reaching nirvana and it is this: You must repeat the mantra. And the mantra, which happens to be emblazoned on our...
Inner World of Moods
“Give me a place to stand on," said the Greek mathematician Archimedes, “and I can move the world.” He was...
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,...
Five Prayers
In gratitude, I bow to all generations of ancestors in my blood family. I see my mother and father, whose blood, flesh, and vitality are...