Good day, everyone! Yesterday morning at the end of meditation I read these lines, from The Dhammapada (one of the oldest of the Buddhist sutras): “If one who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater happiness, Let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.” There are a lot…

Good day to you, folks! I wonder if you’re having the same experience as I am as you travel through the world and interact with people in various ways: have you noticed how self-absorbed people are? What do I mean by ‘self-absorbed’? I mean unable to see beyond their own…

Happy day to you, everyone! Every morning at the end of meditation I offer a reading of some sort that I feel may be of interest, or may inspire or set a focus for the day. …

Happy day to you, all! Yesterday I put out what for me has been a fun little koan, or spiritual puzzle, that comes from a sign I saw in town the other day. The sign that asserted this: “Home is not a place, it is a feeling.” We discussed this…

Good day, dharma-friends! Yesterday I spent some time ‘out in the world’, as we used to say at the monastery, and I saw some interesting things. I’ll include a photo of one of those things. It was a sign in a shop window. Here’s what it said: “Home is not…

Good morning, everyone, and happy day to you! Yesterday I outlined my favorite and really my only conspiracy theory, which is, in short, that the collection of unconscious processes that we call ‘conditioned mind’ is the thing that is in charge of our human world and all of the societies…

Many blessings to you, friends, on this beautiful spring day! I’m not into conspiracy theories in the way that some people are. The popular conspiracies that people indulge in seem to me to be mere distractions from the primary, profound conspiracy, which at least from my point of view is…

Good day, friends! I hope you are well and having a beautiful practice day so far on this beautiful day…. I regularly have conversations with people about their relationship with technology. In some ways, I think, this is one of the most important conversations I have. If we are to…

During a conversation the other day, a friend confessed that the quality of her meditation is somewhat pathetic. She sits down on the cushion, she told me, and tries to direct her attention, but pretty much the whole time she’s sitting there her attention is going all over the place…