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A Wonderful Aspiration 5 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
We admire people who are wealthy, famous, or skillful in some way, but it’s not hard to be like that. If you are born with some talent, a little luck, and you know the right people, you can do that. M...
That Bird's Got My Wings 3 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
One of my favorite stories about Jarvis Masters [a prison inmate currently sentenced to death row, who took vows as a Buddhist from behind bars] was when he unintentionally helped some other inmates c...
Haiku of the Week 29 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
the night is short— on the beach, a discarded broom mijika yo ya name uchigiwa no sute-boki (Buson) From The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters by Stephen Add...
One or Two? 28 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
If we say the world is One, we ignore relative reality, and the multitudinous universe of rocks, streams, people, and cormorants. If we say the world is Two, we are ignoring the single underlying natu...
Transcending Pleasure, Transcending Pain 27 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
In meditation we are not trying to overcome or to defeat anything, and we are not trying to gain any level of high spiritual achievement for the sake of pleasure. Since the practice of meditation is n...
Connect with Groundlessness 26 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
None of us wants to be miserable; we all want to be happy. But we can’t achieve this aim is we stay stuck in biased, narrow-minded thinking. No matter how much we long for joy, it will elude us if we ...
One Truth Without Relativity 25 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
Seeing the truth as it is, is the goal as well as the path. Confused existence, or samsara, is a complex situation based on passion, aggression, and ignorance. Its essence is turmoil. But unless you r...
Emotions Help Wake Us Up 24 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
Before we can extend our compassion to others, we first have to extend it to ourselves. How do we do this? We have to look at our own mind and appreciate how our own neurotic expressions—our confused ...
The Open Mind of Doubt 21 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
In the beginning, it’s easier to experience our controlling mind, with all our attachments, than the open mind of doubt and unknowing. So the exercise is first to make a list of all our attachments. T...
Poems for Summer: Child's Concept of Death 20 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
Warriors die and are born. So do swallows die and are born. In this blue sky— Sun shines, Moon sets, Anything could happen. May the rhododendrons never die. Juniper should not die. I will die one day...
