No need to cling to things floating frog. Naitō Jōsō “For Sam, distance means nothing.” This is what Dessie, a former coworker, once told me after hearing that I walk 40 minutes during my lunch break to a faraway supermarket and back. Indeed, I loved traversing on foot in both wild and urban settings....

1.  It takes me back to a frosty January. I drove into a dome of milk-white mist That spread out forever into space. The lonesome road is its own Universe; Passing along closed-up towns, And cold, silent streets, Mild traffic and minimarts. Along I drove, Suffering In thought and deed. 2. Too little...

“In the mountains, great energies are stored, and in the valleys and rivers ‒ also. With full palms, you may draw energy.” Peter Deunov Prolog In a dream, I saw myself overburdened with orders to translate and edit various manuscripts and other texts. All my acquaintances were making requests, absurd...

Once, my grandmother suggested that I read the works of Erich Maria Remarque. I still recall how she distinctly and somewhat melancholically said, “I love how Remarque’s books are so hopeless.” Indeed, Remarque writes about arguably one of the worst epochs of recent history, the 20th...

1. A hint from a friend   I gazed out of the window on a late March morning:   It was 5 o’clock. Pitch black outside. A starry sky and stilled silent street. As if it were 11 in the evening. The dawn seemed so far away. If we latch on to this, we will be late; And rush about when the sun rises....

I was reading through  Dr. Wayne Dyer’s works when, in the book Wishes Fulfilled, I came across several quotations from the book Three Magic Words by U. S. Anderson. Curious, I read the later book only to reread it five or ten times, for it is one of the finest nonfiction books I have ever come...

1. The flowers on the office window sill; Ornaments of beauty and objects of care, Small totems in green with occasional bloom, Witnesses of the withering of workers And interchanging of desks. With their backs turned to all of this Their flower eyes fixed on the sun. 2. Observe the tree tops. Frisky...

Agenda or abstract? Even amateurs in yoga or in some meditative practices come by a little Sanskrit. Words like āsana (meaning a position that is steady and comfortable), drishti (focused gaze), or vinyasa (linking movement with breath) are commonly heard even in the most Westernized yoga studios. Yet...

Alan Watts, early 1970s (Image courtesy of Everett Collection) “Getting rid of your ego is the biggest ego trip going in town. And the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.”  Here is a man you should meet. By meet, I mean read his books or listen to his recorded lectures since Alan Watts left...