The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our...

Renunciation isn’t a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It’s simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass away, one after the other. Resisting this natural unfolding doesn’t change it; resistance...

The Chinese ideograph for forbearance is a heart with a sword dangling over it, another instance of language’s brilliant way of showing us something surprising and important fossilized inside the meaning of a word. Vulnerability...

Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them… Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we...