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Two sides: Winning and losing. Many years ago, my Zen teacher told me: “Once you open your eyes, without bias, you’ll be amazed how many les...

Leaving school behind. Wise choices—Something we all want to make. The trouble is choices are measured after the fact, not before, and ...

Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there lived a king of great wisdom . Each day the king would hold court and hear the pleas of his p...

Political affinity would appear to have little to do with intelligence, education, or any other standard measures used to analyze governing ...

Have you ever wondered what Rip Van Winkle must have thought when he awakened after having been asleep for twenty years? Time had moved on. ...

Symbol of enlightened purity. Unfortunately, most in the West have not been introduced to the depth and breadth of Eastern wisdom. It is mo...

Rearranging priorities. It’s time to add a new word to our contemporary vernacular. The addition is a simple adjustment to the word “id...

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group...

Moving mountains. The Buddha said we all suffer because we attach ourselves to ephemeral things: here today, gone tomorrow. Attachment to in...

Some time ago, I wrote a post called “ The High Price of Choice: Winning Battles, Losing Wars. ” In that post, I spoke about making choice...

According to Wikipedia,  The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale, most likely of Russian origin, that was used during the 1880s as a story...