The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year the...
To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out...
There are lots of superheroes with different superpowers, and some of them are big and flashy, like super strength and super speed, and molecular restructuring, and force fields. But these abilities a...
It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the mil...
For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?
Her failure didn’t matter, because at least she’d been true to her impossible dream until the very end.
Se você começar a estalar os dedos agora e estalá-los 98.463.077 vezes sem parar, o sol irá subir e se por, e o céu ficará escuro e a noite vai avançar, e todos estarão dormindo enquanto você continua...
6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us...
Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on tim...
True freedom comes from being unknown.
Sometimes you don't need words to say what's in your heart.
We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something...
Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little...
There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are
Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.
I’m pretty healthy and I don’t mind the idea of dying, but I also don’t want to get mowed down by some freaky high school kid in a trench coat who’s high on Zoloft and has traded in his Xbox for a sem...
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
Live. For Now. For the time being.
