Learning to Suffer More Effectively
Psychological grasping is your main source of suffering, not the physical sensations in your legs -- that is to say, how much you...
Trust in the Awareness
‘Meditation’ can mean all kinds of things. It’s a word that includes any kind of mental practices, good or bad. But...
A Realm Beyond Measurement
With meditation, you can't push. Meditation is one of those things that cannot be forced. You just have ot make yourself...
Mighty in Contradiction: Love Powerfully
As we see more deeply into our inner drives and defenses, we discover that the choices we are faced with aren’t all black and...
An Undying Faith of the Infinite in Us
When we watch a child trying to walk, we see its countless failures; its successes are but few. If we had to limit our observation...
The Mystery Never Leaves You Alone
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of...
Reality Poses No Danger
Things that are real pose no danger to the mind. The real dangers in the mind are our delusions, the things we make up, the things we use...
Along the Thread of our Inner Sincerity
Sincerity is a word that I often use in teaching to convey the importance of being rooted in the qualities of honesty, authenticity, and...
A Neuron with Imagination
The old paradigm of life tells us that we are a collection of separate objects. We focus our attention, but in doing so, we often dissect...
Untested Simplicity of the Villages
Is the vision of simple living provided by this village in the East the answer? Is this an example of a primitive simplicity of the...
Pain, the Price of Freedom
Wise beings do not want to remain a slave to the fear of pain. They permit the world to be what it...
But It Is There
We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or a face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense...