A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. A friend who happens also to be a Buddhist priest says when he wrote about the latest events in Orlando, the following: “There is much that we can do, but first and foremost we…
Pain and Change
Suzy asks, “How can you put up with the pain in your knees day after day, but you cringe when you have to get a shot?” She wonders why I don’t get my knees replaced, but when she asks why not, I always have a rationale. In truth our attraction to certain forms of…
Authentic Swing
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. “ — EE Cummings In Pressfield’s Legend of Bagger Vance, Bagger tells Junah: “Yep… Inside each and every one of us is one true…
Immediate Gratification
The very young woman who tries to teach me how to use social media to market my books explained something to me that I knew but didn’t comprehend. She said that those who I am trying to reach by using Facebook, Twitter, and the like, have very short attention spans. I shouldn’t take anything personal,…
Dream World
In your periodic self examination, ask yourself whether if in the end it was better to have fed and clothed someone who wasn’t worthy, than to have neglected someone who was naked and starving. We have all been taken advantage of, but wasn’t it better to have allowed someone to have taken undue advantage…