Meaning of Yin and Yang
Everything has a right to live. Everything wants to exist and we have to respect that. The weaker side in any relationship...
Renaissance
This morning, at sunrise, a new bud appeared on the tree. It was born around midnight. The bark, the skin of the tree, split...
Unattainable Goal of Peace
[Nobel Lecture, June 16, 2012] The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive...
The Cosmology of Peace
The issue of interhuman tension is secondary to earth-human tensions. If humans will not become functional members of the earth...
Be Not a Beggar
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you — but do not think of that now,...
Letter on the Kitchen Table
Dear Ego, I’m breaking up with you. No more circular discussions, no more eleventh hour recriminations. We’re through. This...
A Walk in the Rain
As the story goes, I was walking through the rain on a cold Autumn evening in Oxford. The sky was getting dark; I was wrapped up warm in...
Those Who Float
Young as you are, I know you already know something about faith. You have faith in your mother's arms. That's a good start....
Looking With Head, Heart, and Hands
When I speak of seeing, I feel that the mind is open and in a relationship to the hands working, which opens a feeling of being more...
The Spirit Of Gift
We have learned much from the native Americans, the Australian Aboriginals, the indigenous people of India (adivasis) and the Bushmen of...
A Whole New Dimension Of Love
Everything is flowing. And this flow isn’t made up only of external things. It includes relationships, too. Some relationships last...
On Perfection and Priority
Determination seems to underlie all the perfections [of the mind]. There are four aspects to determination. You use...