Thinking Through

Great spiritual teachers have a way with words. Jesus, Buddha, Laozi, and countless others use the vernacular of their times to make eternal...

  The arid prose of Zen aphorisms sometimes leave you thirsty. Yet something shines through—something nameless, beyond all categories, and,...

I live in San Diego. I know, I’m lucky that way. Yesterday as I was doing yoga on the back deck, my dog began to bark. The breeze throug...

  When water courses through a narrow passage it speeds up. When the canyon opens into a wide valley, then an open meadow, the water slows t...