
The Art of Sharing
When we share anything, Christian Scott points out, the art is to learn to communicate with a sense of good timing. When should we talk, and when should we wait for a better time?

When we share anything, Christian Scott points out, the art is to learn to communicate with a sense of good timing. When should we talk, and when should we wait for a better time?

The author recalls lessons on work and mindfulness learned while working in the kitchen at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and shares some favorite tips.

The author contemplates the death of her best friend in light of the Buddhist teachings on impermanence.

A contemplation on silence and speech, hearing and listening, with two practices to try.

But looking deeper, I also felt a strong connection: to the sick and deceased, to nurses and doctors who couldn’t save them, to soldiers solemnly driving those trucks, to others watching these surreal scenes just as I was doing.
