Speak without speaking
It’s a sign of how powerful was the speech that Emma Gonzalez gave at the March for Our Lives that…
Tag: #not_doing
Brighten the world like the moon freed from a cloud.
In the past week we’ve seen two models of how to deal with thugs. On April 6 Trump ordered U.S….
A plan for 2017, not a resolution.
My New Year’s resolution for 2016 was not to watch the last season of Downton Abbey. I’ve learned that carrying…
Do not read this poster!
Another way of expressing the point of the title of George Lakoff’s book The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant!: Know…
Playing from the feet.
Sarah Sutton, Anne Mei’s viola teacher, gave a wonderful recital last Sunday, October 25, 2015, at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian…
The Italians call it “sprezzatura”
When Anne Mei and I returned from our trip to Spain and France, a friend asked just one question, “Tell…
Sense the time between the seconds.
After I wrote about feeling that the our trip to Europe hit the reset button in my life, I began to…
Metaphor, metonymy, and figuring out what we’re doing … or not.
In one of my posts last year on the science of effortless action, I reported on a New York Times…
The science of effortless action
For those who think my previous posts about doing by not-doing have been hokey mysticism, I recommend that you read…
What if you can’t walk on water?
One night one of the beautiful people approached the Buddha with a question. Beautiful, and of indeterminate sexuality. Bhikkhu Bodhi…