Both Eyes Open
A young boy traveled across Japan to a famous Zen school. When he arrived he was given an audience with the master. "What do you wish...
Objectivity and Relationships
Why has expressing love become such a problem when it's a fundamental human characteristic? This is where I think we have over analyzed...
A Paradoxical Struggle
The life of peace is like an international flight permitting only one handbag. You'll have to leave behind some of your cherished shoes...
Centuries of Culture
Once there was an occasion for me to motor down to Calcutta from a place a hundred miles away. Something wrong with the mechanism made it...
What Breathes Us?
When you touch your bliss, it rings, confirming with the showering of further delight. A song emerges from the core of your being when...
Use Our Whole Selves
I can see now that I started my professional journey on the day at age 4 when I declared to my parents and to the world, \"Mom, Dad, I...
The Tavern
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is...
The Emerging Game
As chaos increases - and there's a lot of inertia in the system that seems to suggest that is the direction we're going in - it behooves...
Spiritual Shopping
There is a general tendency to be involved with all kinds of fascinations and delusions, and nothing very much takes root in one's being....
Being A Social Artist
Let us explore the nature and development of our call to service in ways that link inner and outer realities, universal plans and...
Only Real Thing
Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the...
Unencumbered By Thought
There is a process for reaching nirvana and it is this: You must repeat the mantra. And the mantra, which happens to be emblazoned on our...