Daily Thoughts

We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize or make real that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious...

Mind is matter, subject to time and space, like any object. But awareness is not matter; it is free from the clutches of time and space. So, when the mind links with pure awareness, it is liberated and attains freedom to move wherever it likes,...

I work with these girls [in a recovery program]. They ask for guidance, and I tell them my experience, like 'blue blue blue,' but all they hear is 'green, green, green.' Then one day they come to me and they say, 'you're never going to...

I think I'm beginning to learn something about it. The final words of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, spoken as he put away his brushes, having painted all day from his bed   There is a story about a university professor who visits a Zen master, ostensibly to learn from him. As the...