So much is implied in the word “takuhatsu.” Traditionally, it’s the practice of monks going door to door with their begging bowls. Spiritually, the attitude of takuhatsu opens a dimension that can change your life forever. The Chinese characters for...
What is this longing, this feeling that there is something to be found, something that is more important than anything, that will fill life with meaning and reveal the hidden essence of things? What is it that's sensed as if...
Soup and Salad When you mix ingredients in a bowl, it’s a salad. When you bake them, it’s a casserole. When you sauté them, it’s a fricassee. When you cook them with a little water, it’s a stew. When you...
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me! If only I am sensitive,...
When John F. Kennedy visited NASA in 1962 he talked with many people there. Each one told him about their jobs, with various details of the day-to-day. But when he met a janitor in the hallway and asked him what...
This magnificent poem by Nâzim Hikmet, “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved,” is all the more amazing when you realize that he endured severe persecution and spent many years in prison due to his political beliefs. In 1949 an international...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.
