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To people living in the Western World, Zen seems strange and irrelevant. I’ve tried for years to simplify Zen’s teachings that proclai...

The fusion of two worlds Sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross wrote a poem that narrates the journey of th...

Here’s your basic Graduate Record Exam question: What event links the following people? The people are (not in any particular order): Max...

My daughter and I loved reading stories together. She liked it since she was fascinated by the stories. I liked it because I loved being wi...

Is having the same as being? It has now been sixty-three years since I sat in my high school algebra class. I remember very little of that...

What traps us? The Buddha taught us that we trap ourselves because of deluded thinking. We misunderstand our true nature and thus imagine...

That is THE question. “If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”—W...

Choosing the middle doorway. “The Middle Way” is a hallmark of Buddhist thought yet the term is often short-changed or converted into a so...

Law and Order? In 1970 Alvin Toffler wrote and published Future Shock , a book many considered to have caused a paradigm shift in how ...

When all of the pieces fit together In a previous post:  Our overturned world ,  I shared Patañjali’s view of the five kleshas as be...