Category: Dharma in Daily Life
Newark Peace Education Summit: The Power of Nonviolence
The Dalai Lama tops the marquee at the Newark Peace Education Summit conference in New Jersey.
Arizona seeks to keep karma out of its courts?
Rod Meade Sperry investigates the new Arizona law that seeks to keep religious sectarian laws out of its courts, and how that includes karma.
The Worst Place in the World
After visiting the concentration camp where her Jewish father was held during the Holocaust, Roberta Werdinger reflects upon sites of trauma.
I live far from my Sangha, should I practice with a different one?
Question: I live far from the order with which I practice, should I practice alone or with a different group?
Love Me, Hate Me
Praise and blame are like echoes that don’t ultimately exist, explains Rose Taylor. But we still have to know how to work with it.
Remembering Darlene Cohen
Friend, author and Zen priest and author Darlene Cohen has died, whose work focused on helping people with chronic pain.
Touch of Grey
There is a sacred dimension to growing old. In the face of aging and dying, we can call upon practice to sustain and inspire us.
The Charter for Compassion
The call to action that is inspiring people around the world to campaign for a more compassionate global community.
Discovering the Power of Basic Goodness
Through the practice of meditation, we stop wasting our energy on neuroses and discover windhorse, the never-ending power of basic goodness.
Another Step Forward
Last August four women became fully ordained nuns in the Theravada tradition at a ceremony in California. Amy J. Boyer reports on this North American first.
Frank Ostaseski on how to offer compassionate companionship to the dying
Danny Fisher interviews Frank Ostaseski about his work with the Zen Hospice Project and the upcoming Metta Institute program.
A Successful Subculture
James Wilson discusses how Zen Buddhism in America has shifted from a counterculture religion to a institutionalized normality.
Batting Practice: On Buddhism and Baseball
There's one notable difficulty to being a Buddhist baseball fan: attachment to the outcome of the game.
Allan Badiner talks American Buddhism and Psychedelics
An interview with writer and activist Allan Badiner on the relationship between Buddhism and psychadelics in America.
What Makes You Think You’ll Live Forever?
Stan Goldberg gains sobering insights into death and his own insecurities during a retreat with Ribur Rinpoche.
Consecration of the Great Bon Stupa for World Peace
On December 4, 2010, students will gather in Mexico, to celebrate the Internal Consecration of the Great Stupa for World Peace.
Survival of the Kindest
Psychologist Paul Ekman reveals Charles Darwin’s real view of compassion—and it’s not what you might think.
Age-Old Affinity
Taking her newborn to an assisted living facility, Misha Becker discovers the mysterious kinship between the very old and the very young.
The Time Has Come
The “eight heavy rules” institutionalize women’s second-class status in Buddhist monasteries, and in most lineages women are denied full ordination.
Memorial service for Robert Aitken Roshi announced; official Diamond Sangha obituary released
Roshi's Diamond Sangha has now released an official obituary, and has now announced an August 22 memorial service in Honolulu.