Run With The Unexpected
So many portals to you Hindu, Jew, Sufi, Sikh, artist, lover, dancer, explorer, peace-warrior. Children, strangely familiar,...
See The Universe In A Sunflower
I live in Plum Village, in the Dordogne region of southwest France, an area known for its sunflowers. But people who come to Plum Village...
Blessing For The Longest Night
All throughout these months as the shadows have lengthened, this blessing has been gathering itself, making ready, preparing for...
Rich Man And The Beggar
Many years ago, a man was sitting in quiet contemplation by a riverbank when he was disturbed by a beggar from the local village....
Radical Reflection
We feel we can capture something by thinking about it. In reality, when we grasp at thoughts, the very process of trying to possess a...
Invisibility In A Time Of Transparency
What is the difference between being invisible and just landing in a blind spot? In the woods no more than an hour, I am struck anew...
Ambiguity Of Violence
It is the ambiguity of violence, that we can pull a trigger as an act of hideous aggression or of self-sacrificing love, that is so...
A Higher Level Of Conscious Engagement
We live in an age of spiritual smorgasbord: People are mixing concepts, aphorisms, and insights from a broad variety of mystical and...
Two Drops Of Oil
A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days...
Thirsty For Wonder
Contemplative life flows in a circular pattern: awe provokes introspection, which invokes awe. Maybe you’re making dinner and...
The False Dichotomy Between Being And Doing
One believes that "being" and "doing" are different. Often, "just being" is regarded as preferable or...
If There Is No Self, Whose Arthritis Is This?
"If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?" is one of a list of a dozen questions that have been appearing regularly...