Perception Is A Mirror
Edited by Frances Vaughan and Roger Walsh
You respond to what you perceive, and as you perceive so shall you behave. Every response you make to everything you perceive is up to you, because your mind determines your perception of...
Where's Your Umbrella?
Nazeer Ahmed
The rains failed again that year. It was the third year in succession when there was no rain. The crops had disappeared and the land was a brown swath of dusty rubble. Trees had lost their leaves year...
Action Without Desire Of Outcomes
Vinoba Bhave
To protect self-interest individuals exploit others, nations go to war, and businesses undercut each other, because people in those situations see a conflict between self-interest and the interest of ...
Don't Side With Yourself
Joseph Goldstein
Through mindfulness, our hearts become spacious enough to hold the painful emotions, to feel the suffering of them, and to let them go. But it takes practice—and perhaps several different practi...
Somehow I'm Always Held
Jeff Foster
In my short time on this planet, I have known great sorrow, plunged into the depths of oceanic despair, been thrown so deeply into my loneliness that I thought I would never return. I have tasted t...
Three Types Of Leadership
Marty Krasney
There are three ways that human beings can accomplish anything together and each of them has its own type of leader. Very simply, the three domains of shared human endeavor can be characterized as For...
Keeping Quiet
Pablo Neruda
Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. I...
Exhausting Quest For Perfection
Brene Brown
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting, but as hard as we try, we can't turn off the tapes that fill our heads with messages like "Never good enough" and "What will ...
Death Connects Us To Life
Somik Raha
Growing up with monastic teachings around the impermanence of life, I got the opportunity to apply them when my grandmother passed on, followed by my grandfather in quick succession. I told myself tha...
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Margaret Wheatley
The powerful always defend the status quo because it is the source of their power and privilege. Any change that benefits others would destroy their position. And their position is all they care about...
Dropping Out, Like The Buddha
Jane Brunette
In an age where being super busy is a badge of honor and accomplishing tasks the greatest virtue, where some activists promote rallies by quoting Martin Luther King saying, ”For evil to succeed,...
Recycling Karmic Trash
Shinzen Young
It’s very common for people on a meditative or spiritual path to develop a kind of sensitivity to the poison and pain of others. Sometimes it’s formulated with the phrase “I pic...