Serving Is Different From Helping And Fixing
In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might...
Stop Shooting Arrows
The Buddha compares pain with being shot by arrows. Physical pain is like being shot with one arrow, but then on top of that you shoot...
The Most Subversive Invitation
Humans have an uncanny ability to domesticate everything they touch. Eventually, even the strangest things become absorbed into the...
Lessons From 25 Years of Meditating
I did meditate nearly everyday for about 25 years of my life, and some days, for hours on end. [...] Here's what I found. ...
Processing Anger With An Open Heart
Anger is an intense and primal expression of the life force, a burning flame that cannot be ignored. It is the psyche’s alarm...
Fearlessness
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is...
Beyond The Conflict Of Inner Forces
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.”It is a...
Can You Love The One Who...
There’s one in you who’s sweet. There’s one in you who’s mean. Can you love them both? Can you let them...
Small Wonder
Barry Lopez writes that if we hope to succeed in the endeavor of protecting natures other than our own, "it will require that we...
Using Attention in a New Way
One of the things we are trying to do here, is learn to pay attention to seeing what complicates our attention -- where we get caught,...
Gift from the Sea
The beach is not the place to work; to read, write, or think. I should have remembered that from other years. Too warm, too damp, too...
Social Intelligence
One day, late for a meeting in midtown Manhattan, I was looking for a shortcut. So I walked into an indoor atrium on the ground floor of...