There is a koan about a Zen master who was being chased by a hungry tiger. He ran for his life with the big cat swatting at his heels until he reached the edge of a cliff. With nowhere to go, he lowered himself over the brink using a vine that grew from the soil […]
Continue reading →I had the opportunity to go on a ten day meditation retreat several years back. It wasn’t what you think–no cult, no deity worship, no fasting, no saints, no sinners, just a secular exploration of the vast expanse that is this human mind. Ten days, it turned out, without making eye contact, without speaking, without even acknowledging […]
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