So, this was humbling … All packed and ready for the airport, my cab driver was running ten minutes late, and then spent another five minutes waiting for me outside of someone else’s house halfway down the street. I had calculated my journey based on the assumption that this taxi company is usually early, not late; and now found myself mildly irritated as I ran up to his car to…
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I was back at Bear Creek the other day (not that you can go back & step in the same river twice), and it was occurring to me that it never ever stops flowing. It is relentless.…
I was standing today on the empty grassland that was once the Homestead of the Berons family, with a sign inviting me to imagine for a moment “what life was like” for them? I can imagine that…
When you are dreaming at night, do you miss your waking world? Do you even remember it? We are so invested in this life and all its details whenever we are awake, but it goes away every…
I’m sitting in a corner coffee shop in Manhattan on this freezing clear day, struck as one is by the unstoppable (except by COVID) 24-hour activity on just one of the (so I read) 12,000 intersections of…
Compassion and rejoicing can cover every variety of human experience. There is always something good we can be doing. If others are suffering, we can develop compassion. If they’re doing well, we can rejoice, or feel joy,…
PREVIEW CLIP Here is a gift for you all for the holidays! If you’re feeling overwhelmed with all the external activity and chit chat, or alternatively missing company this year, see if you can get some space…
5 mins read. Without mindfulness, alertness, and concentration, our unpeaceful, uncontrolled thoughts (aka delusions) will keep running the show forever. In other words, we won’t…
8 mins read The other day I heard about a study in which psychologists asked a bunch of regular people how many of their thoughts…
6.5 minutes read In this recent article on the absorption of cessation of gross conceptual thought, Emergency aid for a troubled mind, I talked about the…
The world’s a mess! But please don’t despair … This is the second half of this article. Got blessings? There is so much suffering in the…
Wrote this on Valentine’s Day but it works every day. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! How’s it going?! Feeling happy?! Feeling loved? Or feeling unloved?! Feeling…
A guest article by a Buddhist monk. Keep it simple – but life’s NOT simple! There’s an expression used in business based on the acronym…
By LK and two guest writers. Is it just me, or does whomever you talk to these days tell you about big problems in the…
Guest article. Do you sometimes feel that the problems of our world are insurmountable? We feel confused about the way forward. What are the solutions,…
Self Confidence
Superior intention is not weakened by the kryptonite of attachment or irritation.…