Neighbors Are Our Practice
Meditation is only one of the many qualities that is emphasized. It's a very important one because we have to understand our mind, and we...
We Have Forgotten Sabbath
A "successful" life has become a violent enterprise. We make war on our own bodies, pushing them beyond their limits; war...
What Eugene Taught Me
When I first met Eugene, he had been a peer mediator for several years in his South Bronx high school. Once, when he was asked by...
The Lovely State of Observation
There are two parts of life. Motion and motionlessness. Movement is one part of life but to be in a state of...
The Interplay of Awareness, Presence and Compassion
Many Masters have said: "Urge on the horse of awareness with the whip of presence!" And, in fact, if awareness is not...
If Sameness Is A Demand We Make
When I lived in Hawaii, if the temperature dropped to 65 degrees Fahrenheit, we felt we had been hit with serious winter. In...
Where Skillfullness and Clarity Meet
We have become very skillful in dealing with our daily life; skillful, in the sense of being clever in applying a great deal of knowledge...
Being Judicious, not Judgmental
One of the most difficult but necessary skills we need to develop as meditators is learning how to be judicious without being judgmental....
Beyond Endings
Endings seem to lie in wait. Absorbed in our experience we forget that an ending might be approaching. Consequently, when the ending...
Applying Realization to Relationships
Many spiritual seekers have had glimpses of the absolute unity of all existence, but few are capable of or willing to live up to the many...
Forgiveness & Your Life's Unfinished Business
As awareness becomes yet subtler, able to discern even the muffled whispers of the mind, we are confronted with what a dying...
Pale Blue Dot
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of,...