The Off Button
Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing...
Letting Everything End
There is a great momentum of suffering and confusion that every spiritual seeker encounters. It is the momentum of ignorance which...
Clouds In Each Paper
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain;...
Arriving At Truth
We talked long into the night about what I did and what I had learned, and, when he was satisfied that the journey was not in vain he...
Doorways To Creativity
Question: You have said that feelings such as fear, anxiety, and depression are beginnings, not ends, and in fact, that these...
So What is Happiness?
Happiness and peace. Those are really the prime issues in human existence. That is what all of us are seeking. This often is a bit...
Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes...
Fear and Love
Our lives are ruled by fear. Fear of death, fear of old age, fear of illness, fear of unemployment, fear of failure, fear of...
True Love
Two brothers worked together on the family farm. One was married and had a large family. The other was single. At the day's end, the...
Service
Separateness and unity. How interesting that these root causes, revealed in the expereience of helping, turn out to be what most...
Arrivals and Departures
A cab driver describing his 'view': And this (pointing to the windshield)...this is like my little window to the world, and every...
Logical Conclusion of Meditation
The absence of craving and aversion does not imply an attitude of callous indifference, in which one enjoys one’s own liberation but...