A Buddhist monk asked a student, “If you were carrying a cup of tea and someone bumps into you, and you spill the tea, why did you spill the tea?” The student replied, “I spilled the tea because the guy bumped into me. It was his fault that I spilled the tea.” The monk replied, “No.… Read More What’s Your Cup of Tea?

Spiritual activism has an important place in history and especially now. As the weather begins to cool, the political scene is heating up and becoming more volatile. Spiritual activism can help cool it. Complacency just lets it continue to burn. Let’s cool it! Read on, please! As some of you well know by now, we… Read More Spiritual Activism Makes a World of a Difference

I have written several times this time of the year how August is like Sunday. Just as Sunday is at the end of the week, August is at the end of Summer. Just as on Sunday, most of us take time off from work, so in August most of us take time off from work.… Read More August Is Still the Sunday of Summer

Summer of 2025, June-July Newsletter This summer could bring many ups and downs. It may bring sunny days and more rainy ones. You can let yourself be tossed about until you are seasick, and drained until your tank is empty. Or you can remain established in your Self — steady, sturdy, buoyant and even-keeled. Whatever… Read More The World Needs Your Self to Shine

An Ode Owed to Mothers   We owe mothers more than a day a year to honor them. Much more.   Mothers have the most difficult job in the world. Besides carrying us for nine months, going through labor pain and giving birth to us — how burdensome and painful that is I cannot even… Read More An Ode Owed to Mothers