A Journey Together
If we could take a journey, make a pilgrimage together, without any intent or purpose, without seeking anything, perhaps on returning we...
No Homes, Only Houses
There is no home, there are only houses. We try to make homes out of houses, but in fact, home is projection -- there is only a house...
So I Believed
"The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did...
To Rule Or To Serve
We have to perform action, so let us do it whole-heartedly and let us choose the form of action that we want to do. Now the choice is...
Thank You Silence
how bout getting off these antibiotics how bout stopping eating when I'm full up how bout them transparent dangling carrots how bout...
Live For Others
Each one of you has some special quality, a uniqueness, that others have not. Each one of you is richer or poorer in some way than...
Doing What You Love
You should be doing what you love. What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will...
The Evolutionary Impulse
It is a very rare moment indeed when the evolutionary impulse -- that mysterious urge toward unbounded freedom and our own potential for...
Zen Anecdotes
~~One day I complained to Suzuki Roshi about the people I was working with. He listened intently. Finally, he said, "If you want to see...
Open to Any Possibility
In using thought in this way we are not demanding a fixed or certain answer. We must remain open to any possibility. If something...
Thousand Branches, Million Plums
As a seed is capable of becoming a tree, all human beings are also capable of realizing their own full potential. In order for the seed...
Radical Response
Although not wholly adequate, Matthew Fox's definition of prayer is still my favorite. It is a definition that doesn't even use the word...