What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. --Herbert Simon, Economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)

A few years...

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question." --Yogi Berra

Enlightenment. It's why you practice, right? To become enlightened? You probably have your own ideas about it.

The end of suffering. The end of karma. The end of confusion. Free...

Suppose you are interacting with another person and you come to a place from where you have no idea how to proceed. You are at an impasse. The impasse is the result of something going on in the other person. And you are convinced that you know what it is....

"Why don't you talk much about happiness, as most Tibetan teachers do?"

Why, indeed? Doesn't everyone, in the end, seek happiness?

Perhaps. Perhaps it depends on what happiness means to you.

Happiness, I think, is usually associated with a feeling of pleasure and the absence of pain. As such, I...

Teacher, guru, or spiritual friend -- what are you looking for? The spiritual path has many challenges. There are many things we need to learn or develop. A short list would probably include motivation, skills in meditation and prayer, contemplation, etc. Like music or painting, most of us learn better...

A government group recruited a number of religious leaders from different traditions to discuss a new area of policy under consideration. In the morning session, the religious leaders had marked differences in their views on what the policy should be, according to their different religious views. Nothing was agreed on,...

One evening, a managing partner of one of the big accounting firms came into my office. In his late 40s, he was, nevertheless, so stiff that he could hardly bend his body to sit in a chair. Decades of long hours at work, high stress, and constant demands had taken...