Incentives Are Not Enough
When you incentivize everything, you de-moralize it, you take the moral dimensions out of it. Arguably, in the olden days, bankers...
My Stroke of Insight
One of the greatest lessons I learned was how to feel the physical component of emotion. Joy was a feeling in my body. Peace was a...
Be With the Storms
How to free yourself from the grip of storms? This is the only basic problem in this universe. The first thing is to become aware of it...
Open to Release
Let's say you're making something, a simple artistic sketch. You have the sketch in front of you. There's the...
Thinking, Feeling, Willing
In these difficult times, my great hope is that we can move to a culture that balances our needs and wants with our actions and...
On Good and Evil
Contemporary understanding of matter and energy also suggests a new way of thinking about good and evil. Evil in human affairs is...
Attunement: an Agendaless Presence
Attunement is attention that goes beyond momentary empathy to a full sustained presence that facilitates rapport. We offer a person our...
Going Beyond Hope and Fear
For me and most of my colleagues, life these days is a roller coaster ride between hope and fear, oscillating wildly between what's...
Learning to Stay
In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and...
There Is Just One Thing To Do
When you become a lover of what is, there are no more decisions to make. In my life, I just wait and watch. I know that the decision will...
Watching Volcanoes Explode
We must become deeply aware of our bondage if we value freedom. We begin to watch our behavior throughout the day; we notice the fear,...
The Phenomenon of Boredom
The labeling of a huge part of human experience as boring is a relatively new phenomenon. The concept of boredom -- a sense of emptiness...