Category: Buddhist Wisdom
When You Greet Me, I Bow
When a couple sees their relationship as practice, their love is grounded in a deeper knowing of one another. Even if there are tough times, says Norman Fischer, practice brings them back to appreciation and affection.
Mindfulness is the Best Medicine
After 13 years as a Buddhist nun, Sister Dang Nghiem looks back on her medical career and realizes monastic practice and medicine aren’t that different.
What is Monkey Mind?
We all recognize monkey mind—that wild mind going in more than one direction at a time, swinging from one branch of thought to the next. It wants the next banana, the next big thing, the next small thing. It wants to keep moving. Monkey mind likes texting and online gaming. It’s the mind that likes…
Tara, the First Feminist
Since becoming ordained four decades ago, Lama Tsultrim Allione has faced her share of challenges and sexism.
The More Carefree You Are, the Better Your Dharma Practice
The more carefree you are from deep within, the better your dharma practice is.
Shaping Buddhadharma’s Future
Buddhadharma belongs to you, our readers. Help us shape its future.
Inside the Fall 2016 Buddhadharma magazine
Look inside the Fall 2016 issue of Buddhadharma, with features on the bodhisattva vow, the late Zenkei Blanche Hartman, rimay, and more.
Book Briefs for Fall 2016
Rory Lindsay reviews "Dream Yoga," "Gods of Medieval Japan," "The Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism," and more.
Get Very, Very Close
Sayadaw U Pandita’s shares his instructions for satipatthana vipassana.
Democracy is Good For Sanghas
In many Buddhist communities, teachers have dominant governing roles, but democracy is vital in order for Buddhism to flourish in the West.
Healing and the Reality of Death
We view our desire to get rid of disease as a desire to avoid death. But it is often just the opposite: it is an attempt to avoid life.
The Ultimate Happiness: An exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama
In this exclusive conversation, the Dalai Lama talks about human goodness, and how caring for others is the ultimate source of your own happiness.
Book Reviews for September 2016
We review Orgyen Chowang's "Our Pristine Mind," Shinzen Young's "The Science of Enlightenment," a Zen poetry book, and more.
The “Alphabet Heart Sutra”
Aura Glaser express the truth of the Buddha's Heart Sutra in 26 words — from A to Z.
Who Was Padmasambhava?
Who is Padmasambhava? We answer your questions on Buddhism and meditation.
The First Noble Misunderstanding
There's a lot of misunderstanding about meditation. In fact, that's pretty much all that meditation is — the process of seeing how very much you've misunderstood about it and everything else.
Why Larung Gar, the Buddhist institute in eastern Tibet, is important
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy is a major center of Buddhist monasticism and study in Tibet. It faces demolition later this month.
Who Is Tara the Liberator?
Three Buddhist teachers explain the significance of the deity Tara.
The Practice of Recollection
The Buddha called recollection "the only way." Quite simply, recollection is remembering to establish the attention with full awareness on the present.
Mingyur Rinpoche reveals what happened during his four years as a wandering yogi
Mingyur Rinpoche says the best part of his time as a wandering yogi was his near death experience, which taught him to rejoice in everything.