Give Your Story As An Offering
Wait till you feel your own story like a dream, like a possibility, and then give it to the earth as an offering. Give your own story to...
Technique is Unimportant
Technique is unimportant. It takes care of itself without any help from you. Just concentrate fearlessly on whatever you and the canvas...
Truth is Alive through Alertness
Your truth can be alive only if it comes through alertness, not through precepts and principles. Each moment, you have to be alert in...
Spirituality: The Seed of Social Action
The study of our mind, the psychological structure, does not require isolation, but it does require attentiveness. The movement of the...
The Mystery of Silence
Silence cannot really be described. It is not the absence of sound. It makes it possible to notice sound. It is still, but its stillness...
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living...
When You Run Into Problems
You are going to run into problems in your meditation. Everybody does. Problems come in all shapes and sizes and the only thing you can...
You Were Made For This
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our...
Power of Blessing
We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound...
Why Do You Meditate?
You meditate to remind yourself that you're not a prisoner. If there is power in your meditation, if your experience of the ground of...
Un-learning the Ways of Un-love
When you are absolutely happy in your aloneness, when the other is not a need, it is then that you are capable of love. If the other is...
Zen TV
"How many of you know how to watch television?" I asked my class one day. After a few bewildered and silent moments, slowly, one by one,...