
Beyond the Easy Answers
In hard times, I reflect on Chapter 20 of the Tao te Ching. In uncertain times, fluidity brings about hope....
In hard times, I reflect on Chapter 20 of the Tao te Ching. In uncertain times, fluidity brings about hope....
Understanding mythology allows us to take practical charge of our inner lives....
The famous mythologist, Joseph Campbell, has the answer to becoming a better person. And it only takes two steps!...
How can we experience the numinous in a world like ours?...
We can change the world, but it requires that we relearn how to think about the world, and our place within it....
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone....
And our attention can change the world. Climate change, refugee crisis, nuclear proliferation — what if we could help change all this with one simple shift in our thinking?...
Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?...
Aikido can change your life… and the world. “The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt....
When you ask someone what it means to be vulnerable they oftentimes start talking about it as a synonym for weakness....
“[Homeostasis is] the fundamental property of life that governs everything that living cells do, whether they’re living cells alone, or…...