Deciding What You Want to Keep
Look at your life in the same way you’d look through an attic, deciding what you’re going to keep, what you’re going to...
One Legitimate Use of Power
Gandhi never held any official position in government, he had no wealth, the commanded no armies -- but he could mobilize millions. ...
Letter to A Friend in A Hurry
You are at a crossroads, sensing there are less worldly paths you can follow, paths that feed on profound inner peace, a more...
What You Have Given Your Mind to Do
If you mistreat an animal, it becomes afraid. This is what has happened to your psyche. You have mistreated it by giving it a...
Like The Sun Shining
Sometimes people don't understand how Buddhism can talk about compassion and love in one breath and non-attachment and all these...
Radiating Photons of Goodwill
Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion....
Elephant in the Rock
In ancient India lived a sculptor renowned for his life-sized statues of elephants. With trunks curled high, tusks thrust forward, thick...
The Endurance to Observe
There is little I have heard from others -- and it is my daily business to listen -- that I have not seen in myself as I sit. But I also...
The Only True Voyage
A garden is a place where growth is found. It has its own source of change. One does not bring change to a garden, but comes to a garden...
Walking the Razor's Edge
When we aren’t into our personal mischief, life is a seamless whole in which we are so embedded that there is no problem. But we...
Impermanence is Not Fragility
Perhaps survival was not only a question of the skillful use of state-of-the-art technology, perhaps there was something innate, some...
Beyond Being Present
All that past and all that future weigh down this one little moment here in the present: No wonder the present buckles under the weight....