Sadness Starts Laughing
Be of good cheer. Let cheerfulness become a climate that surrounds you day in, day out. Cheerfulness should not remain just an emotion...
Serenity not Security
Has this ever happened to you? You pick up a book and a sentence leaps off the page as if it had been written just for you. Or you hear...
Friends with the Wind
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we...
Waterfall of Words
There was a time in my life during my years in college when I was so talkative that the waterfall of words kept others at a safe...
Dandelion Has My Smile
If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know...
Stillness Speaks
The mind exists in a state of "not enough" and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and...
Definition of Greatness
The setting is clear. James and John are making a specific request of Jesus -- "Now when you establish your kingdom, let one of us sit...
What is Time?
Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action....
Relief Not Cure
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they...
Sip The Honey
If we examine our own lives, we find that the greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it --...
One Robe One Bowl
In the early years of my practice, a group of Burmese monks were guest teachers for a week at a retreat at which I was a student in...
Automatic Reactions
There are two aspects of quiet sitting, or meditative inquiry, if you will, which are not mutually exclusive. Description and language...