ROBOTHAM: Weeding the Garden

ROBOTHAM: Weeding the Garden

By Tom Robotham   You should be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind because eventually they will enrich your practice. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.   Now that the summer of 2015 has come and gone, I find myself reflecting on the last...
History Lessons, Part 2

History Lessons, Part 2

By Tom Robotham   If a nation expects to be ignorant and free…, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson.   Last month in this space, I wrote an essay called “History Lessons.” My inspiration for doing so was the mass of misinformation...