Dharma Topics

Dear Still Water Friends,

Sometimes I come across a few lines from a poem, or a few paragraphs of prose, that are so piercingly clear that they help me untangle my confusions and give meaning and direction to my life. Such clear thinking and writing is rarely about “correct definitions.” Rather, it marshals words and images to take me into the heart of phenomena so that I better understand how they came to be and how I can work with them in my life. My attention to clear thinking and writing was stimulated this week by a few paragraphs in The Art of Living in which Thich Nhat Hanh explores what spirituality means to him and how it shapes our... Continued