Become a Lake
An aging master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned,...
Look At The View
I found one of my best teachers on the boardwalk at Coney Island many years ago. It was December, and I was doing a story about how...
Giving Leftovers
As we start getting further from the L.A. area, everybody wants to have a chance to give us a meal, to help out. As a result we have...
Zen Alarm Clock
Much as you want to roll over and go back to sleep, we have to start the day sometime. Whatever serves to stir us from our slumber --...
Nowness Connects Everything
[Meditation] is what I do to start every day. It's a discipline and a setting of priorities. I'm not going to allow my mind to create...
Living to Give
In my early life I made two very important discoveries. In the first place I discovered that making money was easy. And in the second...
The Rabbit And The Garden
In the movie Phenomenon, John Travolta's character has done everything he can think of to keep this pesky rabbit out of his garden....
Smile a Lot
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer...
Mind is a Projector
Mind is a projector. You sit in a movie house and you see a thousand and one things passing on the screen, and the screen is empty;...
Love Your Enemy
"Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which...
Joy and Sorrow
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears....
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it a word, causes fear. Jeet Kune Do [a martial arts form by Bruce Lee] favors...