personal

  • Reb Anderson

    ‘We can learn to welcome everything, including our own failures. When we learn to welcome everything…

  • What We Lean Towards

    This might have become part of a talk I had been planning to give in England,…

  • Connection

    ‘I should dispel the suffering of others because it is suffering like my own suffering. I…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘Each of the six perfections is suffused with the perfection of understanding, which sees the truth…

  • A Month Of Sundays

    ‘Not knowing is most intimate’ – Dizang. And so we continue, not knowing how exactly it…

  • Diane Eshin Rizzetto

    ‘Intelligent practice remembers that the value of practicing with the precepts lies not in how it…

  • So How Is It Now?

    ‘If wisdom is the insight that nothing has a fixed nature and that all things are…

  • Dominion and the Rate of Change

    The weekend ended up feeling tremendously long. I had kept my calendar clear as I had…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Some people think that when we eliminate all thought and experience enlightenment we are liberated; we…

  • Two Views Of A Ship

    As we were sitting out on the Embarcadero this past Monday, on a warm and sunny…