Working With Soil, Attending To Soul
A garden tends to get inside us. If we go there to accomplish something or to get something, the garden soon becomes a burden. With...
Going Beyond the Roles We Play
We seem so very real. But our bodies are really not our own and we have no control over either their coming or going. We have roles that...
Creating Welcoming Space
One way of measuring whether our love is genuine, however, is to examine how far we've extended the boundaries that determine whom we...
Not Resisting Resistance
The building where I used to run a meditation group was on the same street as a fire station; one could almost guarantee that sometime...
Kindness Includes Everything
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering,...
Our Environment Is An Integrated Whole
We have a very special relationship with our environment. The sooner we realize it, the better it is for all of us. Life as we know it...
A Heart Wide Open
"Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depth of their hearts where neither sin nor knowledge could...
Anyone Else Suffer From Active Laziness?
I was recently reading a book about a boy who becomes acquainted with philosophy through the need to answer questions about living and...
A Pledge For Grateful Living
In thanksgiving for life, I pledge to overcome the illusion of entitlement by reminding myself that everything is gift and, thus, to...
Who are you, really?
“Any thought that you have had about yourself, however deflated or inflated, is not who you are. It is simply a thought. The truth...
Practice of Being Real
The practice of being real is something highly underrated. We have been taught to appear in certain ways to get the approval of others....
Be Nobody
Consider this: We all know that it is in those moments when we completely lose ourselves — engrossed in a good book or movie,...