Category: Buddhist Wisdom
David Guy on the Zen of Writing
In this exclusive web interview, author David Guy talks about his practice, the state of Buddhist publishing, and his novel Jake Fades.
Web-Exclusive Interview with Author Roland Merullo
Web-exclusive interview with Rolan Merullo, author of Breakfast with Buddha, on writing about spirituality.
Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight
Barbara Gates and Wes Nisker, long-time editors of the long-running Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind, have just published The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight. Chris Faatz offers a nice review of the book at Powells.com:
Lama Zopa on Caring for Your Animals
Rinpoche had these general suggestions for ways students could care for pets in everyday life and at their death.
Brothers First
What’s it like being the Dalai Lama’s kid brother? Tendzin Choegyal talks about his struggles and the big brother who has stood by him.
How does one deal with sexuality within the sangha?
The teachers are asked "How does one deal with one’s sexuality on an individual level, within sangha, and especially with Buddhists in a teaching role?
A Great Master’s Simple Goodbye
Review of Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk by Master Sheng Yen.
A Lineage of Yoginis
Review of When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty by Hildegard Diemberger.
The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies
Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.
Discovering Our Nobility: A Psychology of Original Goodness
Prominent Buddhist teacher and psychologist Jack Kornfield proposes a new psychology, one based not on a model of sickness but on Buddhism’s belief in the inherent nobility, beauty, and freedom of human nature.
Evaluating Eckhart
Review of "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
Coming Home to the Body
The practice of meditation is a journey of return to who we really are, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer. We come home to the body.
Burning with the Fire of Shingon
Richard Payne's account of his experience with the Shingon tradition.
Understanding Buddhist Koans
A koan as defined by Steven Heine, a scholar of Zen Buddhism at the Florida International University.