Pain of Problems
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we...
Leave No Trace
"Zen master Dogen said that when birds fly in the sky, they leave no trace. And when fish swim in the water, they leave no trace. With...
Want To Escape
Q: Many people are aware of the truth of suffering but do not move on to the second step, awareness of the origin of suffering. Why is...
Dance of Life
Your body is composed of the elements of nature -- earth, wind, fire, and water -- the ancients said. Your mind and spirit are beyond...
Grown-ups Like Numbers
Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask:...
Zorba The Greek
From a book review of 'Zorba The Greek': The plot of Zorba is deceptively simple: a bookwormish writer (called in the novel "the...
Moving The Rocks
A writer I know began his practice with a well-known teacher many years ago. The writer didn't know much about meditation, but after...
Spiritual Materialism
Whatever you want, even the so-called spiritual goals, is materialistic in value. What, if I may ask, is so spiritual about it? If you...
Water-falls
I went to Yosemite National Park, and I saw huge waterfalls. The highest one there is 1340 feet high, and from it water comes down like...
Seeds of Real Action
Why is it that the mind cannot be in the present? The mind moves on and on because it just cannot be quiet. We do not really need...
Your Thoughts And Mine
Your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity. My thought is a cloud...
In The Living Present
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem....