Archives: BD Articles
Readers’ Essays: Intoxicants
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to intoxicants.
See the True Nature, then Let Go and Relax in That
An interview with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche that turned into a Mahamudra teaching on the spot.
Buddha Is Right Here
Buddhadharma presents two of Suzuki Roshi's talks that address the fundamental koan – the life we lead at this moment.
A New Vision for Zen Center
Julia Sommer reports on an intensive three-year process at San Francisco Zen Center to set its goals for the future.
Readers’ Essays: Creativity
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to creativity.
Fully Engaged in Body, Speech, and Mind
Anne C. Klein on the foundational practices of Dzogchen, through which we can meet the dharma with our entire being and dissolve conceptual mind into the “great expanse” that is liberation.
Forum: The Importance of Study
The Importance of Study: a panel discussion with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, John Daido Loori, Christina Feldman and Georges Dreyfus.
Readers’ Essays: Therapy
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to therapy.
What is a Moktak?
A moktak as defined by Chong Hae Sunim, a Zen abbot, and Master Seung Sahn, a teacher of Korean Zen Buddhism.
Directly Experience the Nature of Mind
Instruction on Mahamudra vipashyana meditation by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.
Smells like Teen Spirit
Todd Stein on how Buddhist communities are tailoring programs specifically for teens and young adults, making a big difference in some young lives.
The Cushion Or the Couch?
Psychotherapy & Buddhism, according to pschyoteraphist Barry Magid.
Emptiness / Buddhanature
The Buddhist schools are rich and varied in their perspectives, but these many points of view all advance the Buddhist concept of the middle view.
If there is no self, who is it that keeps getting reincarnated?
Doesn’t the idea of reincarnation imply that there is a thing or self that can be referred to as existing, which passes from one life to the next?
Reader essays: Relationships
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to relationships.
Free from Mind, Discrimination and Consciousness
Master Sheng-yen is abbot of the Nung Ch’an monastery in Taiwan. This interview was conducted during a ten-day silent illumination retreat he led.
Celibacy and the Awareness of Sexuality
Ajahn Thanasanti explains why practicing celibacy is one of the best ways to experience and understand our sexuality.
The Thing about Relationships…
Let's cultivate clear seeing, rather than holding a hierarchy of images in which ordinary life, people and relationships are held as mundane and second-best.
