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Are You Trying Too Hard?
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about. —Henry David Thoreau There is a Zen story about two teachers that goes back to seventh-century China. One teacher is sweeping some stone steps inside the temple with a wooden broom....
Walking the Path of Right View
My cousin Gary is a successful businessman living on the East Coast. He works hard and with intensity, is prone to high blood pressure, and feels concerned about his heart and overall health. He asked me if I thought that meditation practice might be useful in...
Talk: How To Be An Emotional Jedi @ TOA Berlin
Marc Lesser presents a Keynote speech on "How to be an Emotional Jedi" at Tech Open Air Berlin, Europe’s leading Technology Festival. Becoming an Emotional Jedi is about being at one with your breath and your body, finding a way to be present rather than overwhelmed...
“Don’t Stop The Line”
“If you have these two things – the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.” –Charlotte Selver “Don’t stop the line.” For many years this was an agreement, almost an unwritten law, of the General...
How developing your "Way of Being" increases emotional range and the quality of your important relationships
"I keep thinking that what we need is a new language...a language of the heart....a new kind of poetry that tells us where the honey is....And I think that in order to create that language you're going to have to learn out how to go through a looking glass into...
Getting to the Heart of What’s Most Important
Adapted from Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less. Several years ago I was asked to lead a ninety-minute session during the second day of a three-day retreat for an organization’s board of directors. The board was composed of CEOs and executive directors from around...