Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, recounts the tale of the Persian teacher who asked a disciple to place a bag of gold in the middle of a bridge. He is to find a poor man to cross the bridge. The man successfully crossed the bridge where there is a bag of gold which he desperately needs. But he missed the gold. He had been too afraid to open his eyes and never saw it.

Our problem is we think know our faults. But we close our eyes to them.

You seekers who want freedom… freedom from what?

Do you ever watch how you make your choices? Otherwise, how will you ever change?

In the Upanishads it says we are like some spiders who spin a web, which comes from inside us. And then when they are finished with the web, the swallow the web and put it back inside us.

A father put his five sons to a test. He asked them: “What is the most ...