"When the Bullet Hits the Bone"
How will I respond when - not if - when I face death? "Hob", a man with a deep, longstanding spiritual practice, responded like this:...
Responding from a Wise Heart-Mind
Shortly after thousands of Hindus and Muslims had butchered each other in India, Gandhi advised his nation to behave like the ONE family...
Learning to Flow with Reality
Babysitting grandchildren before they're able to speak is a wonderfully direct, heart-to-heart loving-kindness meditation - words don't...
Neurosis - Reifying 'I' & 'Mine'
"From a Buddhist perspective, neurosis refers to our experience of suffering based on a mistaken perception that the 'I' or 'self' is a...
Love - OR - Fear
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation." ...
ONE Human Family
Within our one human family are some very disturbed, immature people doing barbarous things to their own flesh and blood. But the idea of...
Caveman AND Evolving Human
Triumphalism is the attitude or belief that a particular doctrine, religion, culture, or social system is superior to and should triumph...
Quiet vs Noisy Ego
Those who respond the fastest, with the loudest, most abrasive one-liners seem to gain alpha dog status in politics and many other...
A Life Examined
“the duty of privilege is absolute integrity” John O'Donoghue To be alive is, in itself, an amazing privilege. So at day's end,...
Seriously ???
As soon as the old "story of our life" pops up (for the millionth time) we feel its familiar achingly tiresome presence. We have 2...
