Dandelion Has My Smile
If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know...
Stillness Speaks
The mind exists in a state of "not enough" and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and...
Definition of Greatness
The setting is clear. James and John are making a specific request of Jesus -- "Now when you establish your kingdom, let one of us sit...
What is Time?
Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action....
Relief Not Cure
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they...
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...