Communication As Mutual Entrainment
Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility...
We Want Relief. Cure Is Painful
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep,...
Perception Is A Mirror
You respond to what you perceive, and as you perceive so shall you behave. Every response you make to everything you perceive...
Where's Your Umbrella?
The rains failed again that year. It was the third year in succession when there was no rain. The crops had disappeared and the land was...
Action Without Desire Of Outcomes
To protect self-interest individuals exploit others, nations go to war, and businesses undercut each other, because people in those...
Don't Side With Yourself
Through mindfulness, our hearts become spacious enough to hold the painful emotions, to feel the suffering of them, and to let them go....
Somehow I'm Always Held
In my short time on this planet, I have known great sorrow, plunged into the depths of oceanic despair, been thrown so deeply into my...
Three Types Of Leadership
There are three ways that human beings can accomplish anything together and each of them has its own type of leader. Very simply, the...
Keeping Quiet
Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language;...
Exhausting Quest For Perfection
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting, but as hard as we try, we can't turn off the tapes that fill our heads with...
Death Connects Us To Life
Growing up with monastic teachings around the impermanence of life, I got the opportunity to apply them when my grandmother passed on,...
Who Do We Choose To Be?
The powerful always defend the status quo because it is the source of their power and privilege. Any change that benefits others would...