THE SIX MISTAKES OF MAN 1. The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences 5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not...
Marc and Angel Hack LifePractical Tips for Productive LivingWhen my grandmother, Zelda, passed away a few years ago at the age of 90, she left me with a box of miscellaneous items from her house that she knew I had grown to appreciate over the years. Among these items is an old leather-bound journal that she aptly named her 'Inspiration Journal.'Th...
Ritual is about joining vision and practicality, heaven and earth, samsara and nirvana. When things are properly understood, one’s whole life is like a ritual or a ceremony. This is what’s behind ritual, these formalized things that get carried down in the religions of different cultures. Ritual, when it’s heartfelt, is like a tim...