Category: Dharma in Daily Life
Be Peace Embodied
"And if peace is their goal, they will in the field of politics be themselves peace embodied," Charles R. Johnson on the principles of enlightened politics
The Cho-mos of Ladakh: From Servants to Practitioners
Jan Willis reveals why and how life is getting better for the nuns of Ladakh after the Sakyadhita conference in 1995.
The Great Love
As well as its famed doctrines of emptiness and nonattachment, the heart of Buddhism is the love and compassion we feel toward all beings.
How to Study the Dharma
Understanding Buddhism, says Reginald Ray, takes place in stages of ever-deepening and more direct experience.
Readers’ Essays: Creativity
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to creativity.
The Paradox of Happiness
Real happiness is what we all want, but none of our strategies for finding it seem to work. Maybe it's the search for happiness that makes us unhappy. John Tarrant has some thoughts on why the Buddha smiles.
Forum: The Importance of Study
The Importance of Study: a panel discussion with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, John Daido Loori, Christina Feldman and Georges Dreyfus.
The Cushion Or the Couch?
Psychotherapy & Buddhism, according to pschyoteraphist Barry Magid.
Jonathan Schell on the Choice We Face
The world faces a critical choice: whether to use military power or nonviolent political means to resolve our affairs. Jonathan Schell on this choice.
A Courageous Activity
It may look as if we're doing nothing on the cushion, but in fact we're cultivating peace. From that point of view, the practice of meditation is a very courageous activity.
Reader Essays: Politics
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to politics.
Ordained At Last
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, formerly known as Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, became the first Thai woman to receive full ordination as a Theravadin nun.
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.
Kobun Chino’s Trailer
Reginald Ray writes a remembrance of Zen master and famed calligrapher Kobun Chino Roshi, who died tragically with his young daughter in July, 2002.
Relaxing with Suffering
"I'm certain that compassion is the only possible response to pain, yet I still sometimes become resentful when I or someone else is suffering."
After twenty years, I’m wondering: “What’s the point?”
I've been a Buddhist for more than twenty years and I've done a lot of meditation practice. More and more I find myself asking "What's the point?"