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....
The Shambhala Warrior
[A Tibetan Legend] "There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. Barbarian powers have arisen. Although they waste their...
Who Are You To Help
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take five cents in your hand and say, "Here, my poor man," but be grateful that the poor man is...
Worthy Of Your Suffering
There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision which determined whether you would...
The Unwatched Space
I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching. I imagined, like everyone else at school, that my parents were...
The Listening Mind
Reckoning, judging, evaluating, leaping in, taking it personally, being bored -- the helping act has many number of invitations to...
Subsconcious Blueprint
If you were building a new home for yourself, you know that you would be intensely interested in regard to the blueprint for your...