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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.
Thinking Non-Thinking
John Daido Loori, Roshi explains why non-thinking is right thought in this commentary on Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo, Case 129: "Yoashan's Non-Thinking"
Reader Essays: Politics
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to politics.
Never Born, Never Ceasing
A teaching on the nature of mind by the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on The Hundred Verses of Advice by Padampa Sangye.
Ordained At Last
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, formerly known as Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, became the first Thai woman to receive full ordination as a Theravadin nun.
Who Will Teach the Dharma?
A panel discussion with Ponlop Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Yvonne Rand, Ajahn Amaro and Richard Shrobe.
The Simple Presence of Attention
Three talks by the late Toni Packer, author and resident teacher of Springwater Center, in Springwater, New York.
Politics & Dharma: No Separation
I did not begin to study Buddhism until I was forty-three years old. After years of political activism, I took lay vows.
What is Interdependent Origination?
Interdependent Origination as defined by Francesca Fremantle, a scholar and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan works.
Profile: Zen Hospice Society
People who enter the Zen Hospice Project are not seeking a path of meditation, and they will not hear much about “Zen” or “Buddhism” while they are there.
Do Buddhists Pray?
A panel discussion with Mark Unno, Rev. Shohaku Okumura, Sarah Harding and Bhante Madawala Seelawimala on Buddhist prayer.
Readers’ Exchange: Workplace
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to the workplace.
The Three Bodies of Enlightenment
A teaching on the three kayas by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
What is Yogacara?
Yogacara as defined by Charles Muller, an academic who specializes in Korean Buddhism.
Earthquakes and Blossoms Appear
Zen teachings of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi, who died tragically while trying to save his young daughter from drowning.