Ryoken, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut, only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryoken returned and caught him in the act. “You may have come a long way to visit me,” [...]
When I was young, meditation or prayer was a requirement or compulsion. (Who am I kidding? I still fight it… and I’m not young anymore.) There is something about the sensation or gratification that we are on the “right” path. It is said that our journey begins when we lose our luggage. Yes. And the [...]
In his book Too Small to Ignore, Wess Stafford (President of Compassion) tells a story from his childhood on the Ivory Coast of Africa. About a village visited by a convoy of French colonial officials for a government survey. Their questions had to do with “expectations of the future.” (Including numbers and size and growth [...]
