Author and Buddhist practitioner Jack Kornfield sits down for a candid, in-depth interview to help you suppress self-doubt and find inner calm. Calling on decades…
To further sort out the gold from the dross in spiritual life we must distinguish between wisdom and power. Powers can include psychic ability, special…
In order to take what’s good, we need to recognize a second principle of wise relationship and disentangle ourselves from the halo effect. The halo…
When dealing with the humanness and the complexity of teachers, it is helpful to keep a few other principles in mind. One is called take…
Another source of spiritual misunderstanding is our confusion of charisma with true wisdom. Certain spiritual leaders possess the ability to evoke extraordinary states. Amplified by
A certain man caught a bird in a trap. The bird says, “Sire, you have eaten many cows and sheep in your life, and you’re…
In the Arthurian legends, the young knight Parsifal joins the Knights of the Round Table to seek the Holy Grail. His mentor, Gournamond, tells him
