The Translucent View

I just got back from 10 days in isolation from my usual life.  No phone, no internet, no news, no Facebook or Twitter. Just …. Next week I will share with you more about what I discovered. But for now, I’d love to hear your experience of being in retreat from the world. Share with [...]

It’s 4 PM on December 31, 2011. Eight hours to go, and it’s 2012. The aliens will be landing, the tidal waves will be crashing in,  even in our little town in the foothills of the mountains, the supermarkets will have no food, money won’t be worth anything anymore, and solar flares will make your [...]

So what’s the most beautiful word in the whole English language? Out of 470,000 words to choose from, which single word, combined with it’s meaning, is the most liberating, the most joyful, and offers the greatest hope for our future as a species? How about “antiestablishmentarianism?” Terrific for Scrabble scores, yes. But we can do [...]

Here is a passage from my book The Translucent Revolution. Translucent parenting begins not so much with your connection to your child, but with your connection to yourself. When we feel fully connected to who we are, deeper than concepts, we are also connected to reality as it is, and this allows us to really [...]

What have always been the perfect conditions for social revolution?  France in 1789, Russia in 1917?  Gaping inequality between the haves and the have nots.  Back in 2005 my book The Translucent Revolution has a chapter on Spiritual Activism. At that time, we did not know, when, where and how.  But we knew that an [...]

Here is a passage from my book Leap Before You Look. Set aside a day As an act of worship. Rise early, wash, and put on clean clothes As if you are preparing for a wedding. If it is part of your life to pray or meditate, This is a good day to connect before [...]

It often happens in life that you knew something could have gone better. A job interview, a date, a public talk: you walk away down on yourself, convinced that you blew it. And then sometimes it happens that things just flow.  No effort, no preparation, no big deal, and magic takes over.  This was one [...]

As we deepen our practice of relaxing, waiting, and not knowing, we start to experience our points of view as if they were a variety of costumes. We dress ourselves up for play, like a child putting on a cowboy hat or a nurse’s outfit. And then we take the costume off again. Most translucents [...]

Generally I post stuff that is more interesting to you, at least that is my intention.  But today I’ve decided to post something interesting to me!  My oldest son, Abhi has developed a passion for photography over the last several years, and has emerged as one of the best photographers at his school.  Here is [...]

I’ve written seven books.  My favorite is a novel: The Last Laugh.  Here is an excerpt I love: Wednesday, no evening meeting. Paul and I drank instant coffee and ate Twinkies together. It had come to this. Then things began to get very clear. I was wasting precious time in distraction. All that mattered, and [...]