Category: Dharma in Daily Life
Appreciate Your Life
The pitfall is always within yourself. This very body and mind is the Way. You are complete to begin with. There is no gap, but you think there is.
The Case for Contemplative Psychology
When spiritual tradition is viewed as its own school of psychology, it can offer more effective techniques and profound goals than conventional psychology.
Noble Heart of All Existence
Compassion is not a path that is taken because it leads somewhere else. Everything that we encounter, all that we experience, is this path.
Take a Closer Look at the Journey from Birth to Death
We could look at our life as a whole as a journey from our birth to our death, says Judy Lief. But we should not stop there. We could take a closer look.
The Rain and the Temple
"Pushing the dripping hair from my face, the rain running down my cheeks, I speak to my old teacher. ‘I’m here. It took me a while, but I made it.’
Pure Passion
Judith Simmer-Brown on the role of desire in Buddhist Tantra: "The intensity of desire can only be liberated by desire itself."
Liberalism and Religion – We Should Talk
Liberalism's objections to mythic forms do not apply to formless awareness. Thus liberalism and authentic spirituality can walk hand in hand.
A Memorable Ass-chew
In my virginal, pre-ass-chew state, I was thick-headedly oblivious to the danger, my mind racing past that minor detail.
Sympathy for the Devil
Gary Davis was called a devil for the brutal murder he had committed, but on his long journey toward the death chamber, Gary Davis had profoundly changed.
We Will All take This Journey
Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen sits down with Shambhala Sun's Melvin McLeod to discuss illness, loss and spiritual growth.
Meeting in the Darkness
With the people who live with chronic hopelessness and fear, we try to live comfortably in their darkness. And that's the hardest thing of all.
Natalie Goldberg Puts It All Into Words
Writing is where I give everything. I know that when I'm doing sitting meditation, I hold back. Writing is where I put my ass on the line.
Queer Spirituality
Peter Sweasey discusses sexual identity as help and hindrance on the path towards spiritual discovery.
There’s No Place to Go But Up — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation
A mind-to-mind exchange between Maya Angelou and bell hooks, two important African-American women writers, who care and think deeply about life.
The Kosmos According to Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber discusses how to integrate many levels of knowledge from the most concrete to the most etheral into a great unified view of the living universe.
Padmasambhava gives Advice to King Trisong Detsen I
A translated passage in which Padmasambhava gives advice to Trisong Detsen I following the consecration of a construction site.
The Seven Points of Training the Mind
The Seven Points of Training the Mind, as translated Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.