Substituting One Cruelty For Another
Many people swing into action only to make things worse. They're not coming from love, they're coming from negative feelings....
A Route Back To Wonder
“What is a sunset without clouds? A circle that crosses a straight line,” says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud...
Learning How To Think
Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think. A study by a team of researchers at Stanford came out a couple of months ago....
Movie Of Me, Now Playing 24 Hours A Day
What keeps us away from the gentle rain of grace? It's our endless obsession, all day long, with I, me, mine. We wake up in the...
The Broken Piano In 1975
My favourite piece of music is Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert, an hour-long piece improvised, as all of Jarrett’s concerts...
Glory And Terror Of It
The realization that every act, every word, every thought of ours not only influences our environment but mysteriously forms an integral...
The Wisdom Of Uncertainty
One day Ajahn Chah held up a beautiful Chinese tea cup, “To me this cup is already broken. Because I know its fate, I can enjoy it...
The Central Commitment Of The Creative Life
Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always -- these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that...
Does The Mind Exist During Our Sleep?
Every time you go to sleep you have the experience of being without a mind. You cannot deny that you exist while you are asleep and you...
Mistakes: Results That Show The Truth Of Things
The biggest fears are actually the biggest opportunities. I have seen falls. I have seen blood. I have seen gashes and swelled joints...
To Be Continually Thrown Out Of The Nest
We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view...
Discipline Of Tao
A master called Yuan came to Tai-chu Hui-hai and asked: 'When disciplining oneself in the Tao, is there any special way of doing...