Reading Archives (2026)
Why Does This Matter?
I’ve been a graduate student in physics for almost three years, but I only recently figured out why. I had to tackle a simple...
The Revolutionary Educator
Narration, with the teacher as narrator, leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated account. Worse yet, it turns them...
Transmutation
The energy is expressing itself because you stored it in there. Every way you think — "I've been this way since I was little"...
A Recipe Is A Story
In English, to “cook something up” means to prepare food, but also to invent stories or schemes, to concoct something out of...
Secret To A Happy Marriage?
Why is it that many priests and monks perform marriage rites when they themselves are celibate? I have conducted many marriage ceremonies...
Seeing Reality As It Is
Meditation entails the difficult task of cultivating concentrated attention on one’s moment-to-moment experience—the endless...
I Care And I'm Willing To Serve
Lord I cannot preach like Martin Lurther King, Jr.or turn a poetic phrase like Maya Angeloubut I care and am willing to serve. I do not...
Silence Between Breaths
There is a silence between breaths when the heart becomes a sacred flame and the belly uncoils which reminds me how remarkable it is...
To Remember This Dance, We Woke
Once you free your sight once you be for life We are… When I dream, I dream in white, of bells and...
Ask Why Your Mind Is Not Free
The word ‘freedom’ has been greatly abused by tyrannical as well as democratic governments, and religions too, everywhere in...
Saying Yes To Our Lives
All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated ones. Those rarified souls who slip into ecstatic states and spontaneously...
The Super Chrysalis
While walking along a creek path a few weeks ago, I stopped to inspect a Monarch Waystation that had been constructed this past spring....
When Things Fall Apart
I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation...
A Hopeful Skeptic
According to an ancient myth, hope arrived on earth as part of a curse. Prometheus stole fire from the gods, and Zeus avenged the theft...
Live By Vow, Not By Transaction
As we approach the new year, I find myself thinking about vow. In Zen communities, this is the traditional time to renew our...