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...
A Marvelous Victory
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment we will continue to see. We forget how often in this century we have...
Turn on the Light
Improving our lives might just be simple, if we let it. We can upgrade all kinds of old patterns and situations in a much shorter time...
Share Pain Not Suffering
Just as insight has many facets, so also with service. I would like to talk about just one aspect -- compassion. Compassion is...
A Living Silence
How can you understand silence -- chaotic or otherwise? Is it possible for you to capture that silence? When that silence starts...
Four Purifications
Then I discovered that there were some purifications required of me. The first one is such a simple thing: it is purification of the...
Deep Place Within
As your consciousness descends deeper and deeper, you move from a peripheral mode of thinking toward the creative source of thought...