I had a dream. In my dream, I was in the midst of a grossly unfair situation that nobody around me seemed to care about. I felt it was my duty to set things right and I was just working myself into a fit of indignation when I woke up. My first thought was –…
The first time when someone asked me whether I wanted to be right or I wanted to be happy, I was stunned. Wasn’t one the prerequisite for the other? How could I ever be happy unless I set everything to rights? But then, I began to notice that there were always too many things to…
We had our first snow for the season if we don’t count that little snowfall last October. How quiet everything is when the ground is covered in snow! And life returns to simplicity. Shovel the snow from the front porch, drink hot chocolate, catch up with your reading, perhaps slide down the hill in the…
Water on Water, or How to Live Effortlessly In the three-thousand-year-old Chinese classic Book of Changes, there are sixty four hexagrams that represent different life situations. The twenty-ninth of it, the Abysmal, is created by doubling the water trigram. You can call it “water on water”, if you wish. It represents running waters: rivers, streams,…
