It is always difficult to keep simple and clear. The world worships success, the bigger the better; the greater the audience the greater...
From the dawn of human society up to the present time, we have been bedeviled by a persistent curse: the compulsion people feel to...
When we look at the vast sadness and suffering in the world, we often experience intense pain in our hearts. The suffering so often...
Charlotte Joko Beck's rules to help her students with their practice (ironically, or perhaps not, all these rules are directly...
The very idea of perfectionism drives people crazy. The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life till he is...
We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves--the heavy-duty...
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and What am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul...
A samurai, a very proud warrior, came to see a Zen Master one day. The samurai was very famous, but looking at the beauty of the Master...
The whole gist of this teaching is that you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work....
Let's take hermits. People today think being a hermit is a very unhealthy thing to do. Very antisocial, doesn't contribute anything to...
A friend of ours here in North Carolina recently lost her beautiful 19-year-old son to suicide. She told us he was the sixth among a...
Think about how we generally have treated information. We've known it was important, but we've handled it in ways that have destroyed...