Browse Topics
Consciousness
Turning Points
A Salvation Army blanket, Texas ninety-degree road corners, the Marble Hill Dog and Cat Crematorium
April 1985Cosmic Blues
A Reluctant Interview With Emmanuel
Death is the most pleasant thing that will happen to you, though it is very hard to convince people of that.
March 1985Parting The Veil
A New Approach To Biology
Today, October 22, 1983, with several million people throughout Europe taking part in demonstrations in support of United Nations Disarmament Week and protesting against plans to deploy yet more nuclear weapons in Europe, it is impossible not to be aware of the increasing danger with which we are faced. It seems to me that unless we change the way we think and feel, the chances of our own survival and the survival of countless other living organisms on this planet are remote. I hope that we can reflect a little more about this question of our attitudes and the influence they have.
February 1985Sunbeams
December 1984Man becomes great exactly in the degree to which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Understanding Pain
(Part Two)
We just happen to be participating in a peculiar local distortion of reality. The planet Earth is as near to a mistake as the law will allow.
November 1984More Words . . .
Meditation is the root, the plant, the flower and the fruit. It is words that divide the fruit, the flower, the plant, and the root. In this separation action does not bring about goodness: virtue is the total perception.
October 1984The Sacred Path Of The Warrior
Warriorship here does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Here the word “warrior” is taken from the Tibetan pawo, which literally means “one who is brave.” Warriorship in this context is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.
October 1984Where Is The Enemy?
Thich Nhat Hanh On Nonviolence
In order to rally people behind them, the governments need an enemy and are very ready to approve that. They want us to be afraid in order for us to rally behind them. They want us to hate in order for us to rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they would invent one in order to mobilize us.
October 1984
Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
Subscribe Today