The Boatman Calls: A Lesson on Letting Go and Moving Freely “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” — Jackson Kiddard Long ago in China, a monk named John Li set out on a journey to a distant province, but he had no idea how to steer a boat. So, he …
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. RALPH WALDO EMERSON on Judgment Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was an American poet, essayist, and philosopher, who believed that nature …
A Zen Master Short-Answer Zen Zen Master Un-mun always give short answers to his students’ questions. That was the way he taught Zen. Often, he’d use only one word to point to the student’s mind. So, one day a student asked him, when does a chicken’s egg hatch?” and Un-mun answered, “Echo.” Then another student …
