Why Do You Meditate?
You meditate to remind yourself that you're not a prisoner. If there is power in your meditation, if your experience of the ground of...
Un-learning the Ways of Un-love
When you are absolutely happy in your aloneness, when the other is not a need, it is then that you are capable of love. If the other is...
Zen TV
"How many of you know how to watch television?" I asked my class one day. After a few bewildered and silent moments, slowly, one by one,...
Can Love Make Progress?
The idea that humans can make progress strikes some as naïve. With every war and its chaotic aftermath, looming ecological...
Connecting Craft and Creativity
NH: When trying to work creatively things can begin to go downhill. All of a sudden you find yourself down in the valley, down in the...
No Mistake is Fatal
Our minds are pretty chaotic systems, which is why following the middle way is so difficult. It's so easy for a chaotic system to get...
Technique of the Dance
Relationship is not strangled by claims. Intimacy is tempered by lightness of touch. We have moved through our day like dancers, not...
What Do You Really Want?
Most of us do not have to worry about where we will get our next meal, or if we will have a place to sleep tonight. Most of us are not...
The Greatest Danger Before You
In the end -- and it will end -- your life will seem to have sped by like a fleeting dream. Much of your story will be the age-old but...
Do-Nothing Cultivation
The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask, "How about trying this?" or "How about trying that?" bringing in a variety of...
The Gaps on Your Resume
My students say to me sometimes, as they apply to doctoral programs or jobs in parish ministry, "How shall I account for the two, or the...
Being Connected Within
With our mobile phones and wireless palm devices, we are now able to be so connected that we can be in touch with anyone and everyone at...