If You Really Pay Attention
When I was a little bitty kiddy, about five, my Dad began a process … anytime somebody came and said something to us, my dad would...
Maintaining Vision, While Focusing
It seems that the key to the practice is maintaining vision and focus. Vision keeps an overview of what one is doing and the greater...
Plan of Life
For most of us, the first thing we must do is to work -- to have a roof over our head, bread in our mouth, fire in our chimney -- for...
Underneath All Victories and Defeats
In the midst of some activity, even the activity of reading this now, it is completely possible to allow your mind to open fully, and in...
Deciding What You Want to Keep
Look at your life in the same way you’d look through an attic, deciding what you’re going to keep, what you’re going to...
One Legitimate Use of Power
Gandhi never held any official position in government, he had no wealth, the commanded no armies -- but he could mobilize millions. ...
Letter to A Friend in A Hurry
You are at a crossroads, sensing there are less worldly paths you can follow, paths that feed on profound inner peace, a more...
What You Have Given Your Mind to Do
If you mistreat an animal, it becomes afraid. This is what has happened to your psyche. You have mistreated it by giving it a...
Like The Sun Shining
Sometimes people don't understand how Buddhism can talk about compassion and love in one breath and non-attachment and all these...
Radiating Photons of Goodwill
Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion....
Elephant in the Rock
In ancient India lived a sculptor renowned for his life-sized statues of elephants. With trunks curled high, tusks thrust forward, thick...
The Endurance to Observe
There is little I have heard from others -- and it is my daily business to listen -- that I have not seen in myself as I sit. But I also...