Bigger, Better , More Interesting Problems
Is there anything more dangerous than getting up in the morning and having nothing to worry about, no problems to solve, no friction to...
A Buddhist interpretation of “True Love”
What is love? What is ‘true’ love? Can it even be defined? Is it even dependant on being in a relationship with someone? Our idea of what...
The Time Before Death
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think... and think... while you are alive. What...
Songs for Home
And the song rang out 'midst the silence of the lodge I have sat in the pews of hundreds of churches Praised your name-Praised your name I...
Your Mother and My Mother
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living In better conditions, For your mother and my mother Were friends. I...
Dark thoughts, trees and plumbers
"I once had a garden filled with flowers that only grew on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had...
Boredom
Does anyone really know what Boredom is like? He rarely goes anywhere without at least one of his friends. He can't stand to be alone .....
One Truth
In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly the great teachings are the same. What can ever be...
SHADOW SCHOOL
You're a gorgeous mystery with a wild heart and a lofty purpose. But like all of us, you also have a dark side -- a part of your psyche...
A Look at Death with Alan Watts
Turn left a thousand feet from here…
What I really want to give you I can't, Yet all day long I try painting maps on the sky With bright, tender sounds that say, "Turn left a...
All right here
"This body that we have, this very body that’s sitting here right now in this room, this very body that perhaps aches, and this mind that...
HIDING
HIDING is a way of staying alive. Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light. Even hiding the truth...
Bodhisattva’s Vow 2.0
Our own personal happiness is impossible and hollow unless we are also in service to others. With this in mind, I propose an extension of...
Hang Drum Monologues
I Had the pleasure of being with Dreaming Bear here on a while ago (check out his wisdom on: Le Guru is You! Radio) He is one of the...
CORRECTION
Last night I dreamt that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees — were making white combs and sweet honey from all my...
A Crying Out for a Better World
Cinema whether it be in movies or television are often characterized as windows to our collective consciousness. Many (i.e. the Matrix...
Saving Yourself–Saving the World
"Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements...
The Quality of the Day
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not...
Acceptance
Sacred Economics
There’s a porch…
Wild Geese
The world offers itself to your imagination,
Calls to you like the wild geese,
Resume virtues vs.eulogoy virtues
“Recently I’ve been thinking about the difference between the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you...