Running on Empty
Trudging up the modest incline yesterday towards Spring Lake – huffing and puffing, chest tight, legs heavy as stones — I feel a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that this run is going to be a momentous struggle. To my utter dismay, this 50-year-old body of mine just isn’t responding the way […]
Mindfulness at Work: The Goose is Out
There’s a Zen koan that goes like this: “If a man puts a gosling in the bottle and feeds it until it is full-grown, how can the man get the goose out without killing it or breaking the bottle?” Apparently this riddle has been driving Zen monks crazy for the past several hundred years. Now, […]