Practice Detaching

Attachment is the root of all suffering, said the Buddha. An attachment is an...

Tony’s Favorite Stories – The Monk and the Cold Day

On a bitterly cold day a master and his disciples were huddled around a...

Tony’s Favorite Stories – The Coconut

THE COCONUT A monkey on a tree hurled a coconut at the head of...

Discovering What You Are Not

There’s a famous story about the lion who came upon a flock of sheep...

This Christmas Forgive Your Parents

I have said that it’s not the people around us who have upset us,...

Making the Biggest Discovery of Your Life

We’re all in the change business, aren’t we? We want to change ourselves; we...

The Three Decisive Filters

The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. The upset...

You Don’t Have to Do Anything For Enlightenment

If you take a good look at the way you have been put together...

A Farmyard Tale

A Guru’s Tale

A disciple told his guru that he was going to a far place to...

A Hasidic’s Tale

The Jews of a small town in Russia were eagerly awaiting the arrival of...