Sip The Honey
If we examine our own lives, we find that the greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it --...
One Robe One Bowl
In the early years of my practice, a group of Burmese monks were guest teachers for a week at a retreat at which I was a student in...
Automatic Reactions
There are two aspects of quiet sitting, or meditative inquiry, if you will, which are not mutually exclusive. Description and language...
Nothing and Everything
Love says: I am everything. Wisdom says: I am nothing. Between the two my life flows. Q: How can I find peace when the world suffers?...
Science and Spirituality
Science without spirituality seeks to work mainly in human interest and gives birth to technologies of comfort and convenience, as well...
Compelling Authenticity
At one time I got interested in trying to understand how great leaders created enormous social change -- take Christ, take Muhammad,...
Something Worked
The next time you see a tree, observe and take note of this, if you can. That tree represents so much that was right. So much that is...
Let Everything End
There is a great momentum of suffering and confusion that every spiritual seeker encounters. It is the momentum of ignorance which...
Give Thee My All
I had gone a-begging from door to door in the village path when thy golden chariot appeared in the distance like a gorgeous dream and I...
Returning to the Root
Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear. When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction, heaven and...
Technology of Meditation
When you read books about meditation, or often when meditation is is presented by different groups, much of the emphasis falls on the...
Become the Change
Some people might find it ironic that I've never been much of a TV watcher. Aside from old reruns of The Andy Griffith Show, I stopped...