Flow of Money
In a modern society in which most everything essential to a secure and happy life seems to depend on money, the flow of money takes on...
Live the Questions Now
In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where...
Paradox of Noise
It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that experiencing pain...
New Atoms Doing the Same Dance
I stand at the seashore, alone, and start to think. There are the rushing waves ... mountains of molecules, each stupidly minding...
Full Effort is Full Victory
Gandhi wanted so deeply to help the world that he dedicated his life to siphoning every trace of self-interest out of his heart and mind,...
The Test for Meditation in Action
When we first come into this life we form a self in order to cope with the world. The baby has a rather scant self and commensurately...
Giving Within For-Give-Ness
People often say that Jesus taught, "You should turn the cheek if someone smites you; you should turn the other cheek if they wrong...
Before You Know What Kindness Really Is
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth....
A 9-Year-Old's Hidden Self
The quality and strength of Lobsang's inner being was also brought home to me through an event that took place in my home. After...
Cultivation of that Dormant Love
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras,...
Storyteller Consciousness
For words to truly be powerful, we must align them with our creative intention. Only then can we create the stories of our lives....
A Deep, Uncritical Love
You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do...