Visiting the Santa Fe ski area years ago, someone asked the Dalai Lama about the meaning of life. He chuckled in his delightful way and...

Chasing Lizards With winter weather here, my dog is deprived of one of his most cherished pastimes: chasing lizards. Is he actually...

Why Did the Bodhidharma Go To China? This is a classic Zen koan—a question that eludes simple, linear answers, frustrating the mind so...

The philosopher George Santayana famously said that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to relive them. So when it...

Skillful Speech We all know that speech should be truthful. This is a high standard. If you try for just one day to say nothing untrue...

Zen is said to be about doing ordinary things, such as chopping wood and carrying water. We don’t need to be doing anything...

Walking Your Path If you have a spiritual path, and you are walking solidly on it, then you have nothing left to fear. You can encounter...

In a recent bout with the flu, I noted a few things. Your universe shrinks: there is your bed, the kitchen for water and the pantry for...

Chances are, there are things about yourself that you would have trouble admitting to anyone, things that are kept in the deepest corners...

When we think of heroes, we may think of the classical kind such as Achilles, Ulysses, and Aeneas. But these Heroes (with a capital H)...