Sujātā’s Bowl of Milk Rice
Pleasure loses its throne and pain loses its borrowed holiness.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume III: Dharma and Dao

Sujātā’s Bowl of Milk Rice
Pleasure loses its throne and pain loses its borrowed holiness.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume III: Dharma and Dao
Abraham Leaves the Familiar
The unseen partner is not to be pinned down. He is to be walked with.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume II: The Voice of the Unseen God
Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave
The strength worth trusting is the kind that has already been taken from you and returned.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume I: The Living Temple
Hunger Without a Home
There is water everywhere, but the banks are gone.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume V: The Temple in Fragments
Thought needs an “is” to rest on.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume IV: The Edge of Knowing
You match the sun’s rising with a human act of attentiveness.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume III: Dharma and Dao
Thought, word, and deed are suddenly bound together.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume II: The Voice of the Unseen God
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Before the day is used, the day is greeted. Before the world is taken from, the world is thanked.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume I: The Living Temple
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The Great Presences
The water never remains the same, yet the river endures.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume V: The Temple in Fragments
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Let the world correct you, even when the correction is inconvenient.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume IV: The Edge of Knowing
Butcher Ding
Intense activity without strain. Precision without rigid self-assertion.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume III: Dharma and Dao
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Rābiʿa
True worship, for Rābiʿa, is love that wants God, not God’s gifts.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume II: The Voice of the Unseen God
Hospitality Under Open Skies
The measure is sincerity, not abundance.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume I: The Living Temple
Two Reels Meeting
“Who have I made you into?”
Teaching the Unteachable Volume V: The Temple in Fragments
Tell It Slant
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.”
For her, slant is not coyness. It is integrity.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume IV: The Edge of Knowing
The Child Beside the Well
Compassion is the sprout of rén, humaneness.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume III: Dharma and Dao
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But in sujūd, the way up is down.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume II: The Voice of the Unseen God
The sword belongs to the struggle. The thread belongs to the return.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume I: The Living Temple
The “I” arrives already narrated. It comes with a place among others. It comes with a past, a name and a role.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume V: The Temple in Fragments
A World in a Grain
Whatever the Infinite is, no small life stands outside it.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume IV: The Edge of Knowing