Look inside the Summer 2017 issue of Buddhadharma, with features on exploring emptiness, and why shunyata is dynamic, intimate, and workable.
Sam Littlefair learns why there are so few Buddhist apps and how — even if they're not totally necessary — [...]
Kokoro as defined by Shohaku Okumura, a Soto Zen priest. When I moved to Minneapolis from Japan in 1993 to [...]
Abhidharma, Buddhism’s map of the mind, is sometimes treated as a topic of merely intellectual interest. In fact, says Thich Nhat Hanh, identifying [...]
Prayer is alive and well in Western Zen, says Jan Chozen Bays, even as it challenges us to make sense of what we’re doing. Do Zen Buddhists Pray? [...]
When we pray, says Mark Unno, it’s important not to get caught up in magical thinking or to become attached to specific outcomes. Just praying is [...]
I'm not sure I understand the statement, often evoked by Buddhists, “Don't believe everything you think.” How can I know which thoughts to believe? [...]
When it comes to sex, Western Buddhists tend to be fairly liberal. But as scholar José Cabezón explains, Buddhist tradition takes a much more [...]
When the Buddha taught that all beings have buddhanature, says Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, he wasn’t contradicting the teachings on emptiness—he was [...]
Jan Chozen Bays on the incessant desires that fuel our confusion and suffering. Desire. That’s what The Buddha found after six years of [...]
When reverend Kiyonobu Joshin Kuwahara asked himself that question, he wasn’t sure of the answer. So he decided to find out. One of the most [...]
