Knowledge and Wisdom

When you attempt to jump ahead to the future or return to the good old days it is just speculation. You are really just present anyway. So in the New Year put in some energy to breaking old habits so that you can fully enjoy this presence and abide a...

To paraphrase Albert Einstein, in spiritual practice, the answer comes on a different level than the question. That’s because the light that illumines your mind is on a different level that your mind. It comes from the essence of your being. All yo...

This mind which is supposed to be the cause of so many troubles — perhaps it doesn’t even exist. Look closely and you will find that the Zen master has already cured your mind. Not by producing a better mind or helping you get your thoughts under...

Since you are the stillness that sees change and not the one caught in it, there is no place for your mind to latch on to so that it can know your nature. But of course it is ridiculous to say that you don’t know yourself. You know yourself because...

It is however easy to overlook your essential nature and latch your identity on to the objects that you see. That’s because you can’t know the Self as an object. Neither your mind nor your senses can reach there. But you can know the eternal ligh...

That help will occur on the deepest level of a human being. Beyond life and death, it is in the unseen still consciousness that supports all that changes. So even if you find that you are unable to help a person in need, you will still help them. Alt...

In the movie, Alice in Wonderland, the straw man thought that he wanted a brain. But by itself the brain is just a hunk of meat. The thing that makes it come alive is the awareness that lights up the mind. And as the movie shows beautifully, he alrea...