Reading Archives (Author)
Our Practice Is To Close The Gap
Charlotte Joko Beck
Our whole life consists of this little subject looking outside itself for an object. But if you take something that is limited, like body and mind, and look for something outside it, that something be...
A Bigger Container
Charlotte Joko Beck
We can talk about “oneness” until the cows come home. But how do we actually separate ourselves from others? How? The pride out of which anger is born is what separates us. And the solutio...
Willing to Experience our Suffering
Charlotte Joko Beck
A few weeks ago someone gave me an interesting article on suffering, and the first part of it was on the meaning of the word – “suffering”. I’m interested in these meanin...
Walking the Razor's Edge
Charlotte Joko Beck
When we aren’t into our personal mischief, life is a seamless whole in which we are so embedded that there is no problem. But we don’t always feel embedded because – while life is ju...
Life is Relationship
Charlotte Joko Beck
Every moment of our life is relationship. There is nothing except relationship. At this moment my relationship is to the rug, to the room, to my own body, to the sound of my voice. There is nothi...