The Attention That Arises From Caring
Bare mindfulness, or attention from moment to moment, is a good technique as far as it goes, but I don’t feel it’s enough, unless you,...
Putting Foundations Under Castles
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not...
Keep Looking and You'll See
There are three fundamental rules that all the wisdom traditions say will help us accomplish our task, if we follow them. The first is to...
Compassion in Action
I'm explicitly making my life a teaching, by expressing the lessons that I've learned through it so it can become a map for other people....
Thinking Beyond the "Box" of Our Judgments
It is difficult, if not impossible, to be genuinely curious about someone’s opinion and try to reach some deeper understanding of what...
Active Laziness
How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an "active laziness"? Naturally there are different species of laziness:...
The Basic Delusion
The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how...
Exploring the Human Heart
I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'. Real fear came with an unmistakable sensation: it was as...
A Human Society
A self-centered person can never look at anything in life, a self-centered person cannot get related with other human beings. He is so...
Without A Yardstick
When you just sit down, real peace immediately appears. Before any object called "peace" appears, peace appears. So there is no room to...
When Vanishing Vanishes
There\'s something to love and faithfulness, beauty and goodness, something that is not subject to time. For me, it is enormously...
New Year Shift
[A New Year] is upon us, and it will be a year when you and I and conscious people everywhere will need to advance the transformation of...