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....
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...