Zen Moments

“It’s cracked like this because it’s perfectly in line with the Buddha’s teaching” A friend of mine bought a Blackberry the other day. The new Blackberries are pretty slick – email, contacts, calendar, sat-nav, camera… He got it set up, but he couldn’t get the email or the sat-nav to work properly. After waiting on [...]

“The natural state of the human mind is calm and clear…” I was in my mid-fifties when I met my soul mate. It’s not that I never wanted to get married, the problem was that I never met anyone I wanted to marry or if I did, she didn’t want to marry me. Anyway, I [...]

“The Earth laughs in flowers” Some restful meditations on the beauty of flowers – chosen from Youtube by Zen Moments “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” – The Buddha. “Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we [...]

“Not-knowing is not easy, it’s not comfortable…” “And what do you do?” Back when I was 21, I was unemployed. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and I hated that question. “I’m unemployed” was the truth, but I would cringe each time I gave that answer. In those days maybe there was more [...]

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture. Professor Randy Pausch gave his last lecture at the Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed auditorium. In this moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” he talked about lessons he has learned in life and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and [...]

“The darker it gets, the more brightly the light shines” Just as a smile is infectious and causes delight in others, so, much more powerfully, our wisdom and compassion shines like a warm and tender light on those around us, and our very being becomes a gift to others… The darker it gets, the more [...]

“There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost “ WORDS ON SOLITUDE AND SILENCE “Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory [...]

“I felt the forest growing, heard it growing…” The magnitude of life in the rainforest is incomprehensible. I couldn’t take it all in. Everywhere life stacked upon more life. Clinging orchids. Feathery tree ferns. Climbing lawyer vines. Tiny, delicate, creeping plants with green crinkled leaves. I felt the forest growing, heard it growing, inching forward [...]

“I invite the new year to energize me with the courage and exertion to live every moment as if it were my very last…” Greetings from San Francisco! I’ll be spending the last day of the year watching the sun sink into the ocean. I plan on following the sunset, to first gather in, then [...]