Life Untethered: Breaking The Four Categories Of Attachment – Part 1
The phrase ‘if you love something, set it free’ is used almost exclusively by the speaker to refer to another person. But why don’t we use this phrase on ourselves? We don’t usually think of setting ourselves free, probably because we don’t perceive ourselves as being...
Watering Roots, Not Leaves: Cultivating Compassion Effectively
In 1968, James Forest was traveling through the Midwestern United States with the late Buddhist monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh. They were thousands of miles from the napalm and Agent Orange that was raining down on Nhat Hanh’s native Vietnam. One evening,...
Interconnection & Its Connection With Stoicism
Where we find overlap of ideas across cultures and periods of history, we find truth about human nature. We commonly associate interconnection—the notion that we are all fundamentally connected to each other—with Buddhism or other Eastern philosophical traditions. The...
Stoic Daily Reflection & How Stoics Define Success
The ancient Stoics emphasized the need to reflect at the end of the day and ask ourselves constructive questions about what went well and what did not. But how can we measure the success of a day? By which criteria are we defining good days and bad days? And since...
Stoicism And Mindfulness: The Fundamental Tools For Balance
Nobody wants to work themselves into burnout or lonely corners from years of neglecting loved ones for the sake of success. Reasonable people would agree there is no height of success that justifies self-sacrifice. Yet we can be pulled to stray from the middle path,...
How To Practice The 4 Stoic Virtues
One of the defining features of Stoicism is its practicality. The ancient Stoics would even devise clever phrases and mnemonic devices to help their students carry with them reminders of how to act in accordance with the fundamental ideas and virtues of their...
The Right Effort To Find Peace
We often think of peace as stillness. We think of tall grass gently swaying in a lakeside breeze, or of sitting in meditation with a waft of incense smoke curling up towards the ceiling. But peace also exists in a state of motion. Peace can even stem from discomfort....
13 Principles For Practicing Taoism
What is Taoism? The confusing aspect for many is its definition. Many religions teach philosophy and dogma. But Taoism and Zen stand this tendency on its head. The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching simply states that that the Tao is indefinable—teaching that each...
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