This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary…
As living organisms anxious about our existence, we’re all naturally rigged to want to manage our lives with the goal…
When the Buddha was dying, he gave a final message to his beloved attendant Ananda, and to generations to come:…
In the mid-1970s I worked as a tenants’ rights activist with poor families in Worcester, Massachusetts. Through organizing tenants’ unions…
On my son Narayan’s sixth birthday, I gave him an ant farm. He spent hours watching with fascination as the…
The truth is: without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty. Father…
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that…
One of my favorite stories took place a number of decades ago when the English had colonized India and they…
The modern-day mystic and Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello once said: “Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” This statement…
The next time you find yourself in a bad mood, take a moment to pause and ask yourself, “What is…