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...
Fear of Death
It was about six weeks before I left Madura for good that the great change in my life took place. It was quite sudden. I was sitting...
Encounter With A Deaf Man
A big blue Cadillac stopped and a gentle, well-dressed man in his early fifties came over and quietly watched us bow. Suddenly he...
No Big Answer
If logic tells us that life is a meaningless accident, says Ecclesiastes at the end of his journey, don't give up on life. Give up...
Roses & Thorns
The handsome, smiling, humbly-clad man they called U.G. sat relaxed and friendly before me. Intent upon using my visit to get straight...
Disagreements
"Have you ever been in traffic behind someone who doesn't move when the light turns green, so you honk your horn, then you realize the...
Sorrow
Sorrow has to be understood and not ignored. To ignore it is to give continuity to suffering; to ignore it is to escape from suffering....