choice

Mindfulness and wise discrimination

You can’t read much about the important quality of mindfulness without learning that it involves being nonjudgmental – that it…

August 30, 2011

Creating choice with inner wisdom

Srimati discusses the nature of inner wisdom, and how to make creative, rather than reactive, choices. Speaking to the Conscious…

June 26, 2010

How can we trust our intuition?

How do we know what's a valuable intuition and what's some other voice -- perhaps the voice of fear, or…

April 18, 2010

John Dewey: “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”

Dewey's saying echoes Buddhist notions of impermanence and not-self. Bodhipaksa points out that the Buddhist position is not merely descriptive…

September 21, 2009

Antoine de Saint Exupéry: “No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected.”

A common misquotation of a saying by a famous French writer gives Bodhipaksa pause for thought: are both the misquotation…

February 22, 2008

Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t

Dennis Overbye, New York Times: I was a free man until they brought the dessert menu around. There was one…

January 2, 2007