Tag: Sages

One evening while my wife and I were having a casual conversation, we noticed a change in our indoor plant. For many months that plant didn’t grow well. But just in 1 month of moving to a new home, it started to produce many leaves and growing at speed. My wife said, “Plant...

I can hear the sound of lonesome insects whizzing and chirping in the hot Spring air. Away from the hordes and crowds, it seems as if they are a chanting chorus for the dead. I look down at my feet and wonder if it’s possible to hide my shoes within the folds of the grey robe that I’m we...

Early Buddhists and the ancient Greek philosophers, from Democritus and Plato to Epicurus and Protagoras were convinced that philosophical knowledge is a comfort in that it puts you at peace with the world. The Greeks called this enlightened state “ataraxia,” meaning tranquility or im...