Individual and Social Ethics
Misers, whose absorption in means is pathological, are generally recognized to be unwise, but minor forms of the same malady are apt to...
Ancient Law of Hospitality
Perhaps our greatest resource for peace is in an awareness that we enrich ourselves when we share our possessions with others. We...
Building a Creative Temple
Whenever you set out to build a creative temple, whatever it may be, you must face the fact that there is a tension at the heart of the...
You Carry Your Wound
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is...
Stop Eating Our Corn!
[ Fascinated by machinery, a Japanese farmer bought a big foreign tractor to grow his corn and apples in northern Japan. Thirty years...
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...