There is No Way to Peace, Peace is the Way
“You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.” — Buddha As the planet heats up, and hostilities flare between groups and nations, how do we touch and embody the possibility...
Moving Beyond the Myth of Loneliness
What changes as we consciously turn toward our suffering, rather than away? We are conditioned to experience ourselves as separate from life. When we identify with this perceived separation, a natural byproduct is loneliness....
The Happiness of a Liberated Heart
We all share one thing in common: we want to be happy. This wish suffuses our actions, our thinking and our relationships with others. In contrast to the importance of the quest, the number...
Biking with the Buddha: Responding rather than Reacting
There was a time when I was living through the identity of an angry young activist. It was the 1990s, and I was sad about the state of the world and trying to effect...