The Four Immeasurables
This morning a phrase came back to me while I was sitting for my morning 30 minutes, in what I call meditation but which...
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A Bird on the Wing
I always took Kafka’s phrase, “A bird went in search of a cage,” as referring to the human tendency to feel anxious with too...
No Choice
“The overall ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ charge which different emotions seem to have is due to the relative percentages of their more subtle ‘positive’, ‘negative’...
Penelope’s Spinning Wheels
One of the oddest images in Homer’s “Odyssey” is of Odysseus’ incredibly faithful wife weaving all day and unravelling each night, a garment which...
Animal Stories are Us
Unsettling truths about the human realm can be more palatable when delivered in the form of a parable. In animal stories, such as told...
Spring Flowers in a Field
You can encounter an insight hundreds of times without it really catching hold in your mind–like a burr catches hold of your pant leg...
Crossing the Rubicon
Sometimes we turn down a new road, with little idea how momentous the consequences will be. Thank goodness that’s possible. “What we call ‘the...
The Heartbeat of Praise
“And may mind, wearied and weakened In this fictitious being so full of karmic actions and emotions, today find comfort and ease.” “Kindly Bent...