Just as the warmth of summer can make a cricket sing, the quality of being held enlivens the heart. We have been battered by modern times into obsessive problem solvers, but as life pares us down into only what is essential, it becomes clear that the deepest...
“We need to stay current with each other.” Angeles Arrien It has taken a lifetime to understand how easily I can secretly wish for things to change, and in my secrecy prevent true change from happening. For example, I loved a friend for many years who was unable to...
Here is always beneath There. I remember sitting for a long time on the edge of a summer lake, watching the far shore. I could see early light flood the water in the distance and this somehow made the other side seem exotic. Every morning I’d sit on my small edge of...
The shore thirsts, but does not own the ocean that keeps it soft. So, too, the heart and all it loves. In the ancient Indian language Pali, the word ahamkara means “I-ing” having or making the feeling of “I.” The word mamamkara means “My-ing,” having or making the...
“The mind composed of ignorance or wrong view suffers from spiritual disease; it sees falsely. Seeing falsely causes it to think falsely, speak falsely and act falsely. You will see immediately that everyone, without exception, has the spiritual disease.” Ajahn...
