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It's up to us. In the Western world, the term “sentient being” is not your every-day word.  We think in terms of human beings or other ...

The recent debacle in Washington brings into sharp focus a fundamental flaw in our way of thinking and thus how we wrestle with problem-solv...

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Not many books on Zen have achieved the notoriety...

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...

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

All or none This is a recycled post initially created during the  Obama  era since the issue is as relevant now as then. We seem to b...

Ego, by Hsiao-Yen Jones Bias; vested interests; preconceived ideas; discrimination: All forms of distortion that shape our view of the...

The road MOST traveled. “The teacher appears when the student is ready.” Everyone has heard that metaphor, but what does it mean? It ...

Which way to go? “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not...

We are facing an unprecedented era of crisis, never seen before. Not only is there the evident crisis of fighting a global war with an u...

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”⎯Alan Watts As Voltaire indicated, while...