Category: Buddhist Wisdom
The Mind-Body Story
Review of The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington
Jack’s Blues
Review of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) by John Leland
Prince of the Ascetics
Charles Johnson imagines in this short story the very moment Siddhartha became the Buddha.
The More Things Change
Review of After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow.
What is Nekkhamma?
Nekkhamma as defined by Ajahn Munindo, a Theravada abbot of the Thai Forest Tradition.
Forum on Psychology and Buddhism
A forum on psychology and Buddhism. What they share, how they differ, and do we need both?
Who Was Yeshe Tsogyal?
Holly Gayley discusses the power of Padmasambhava’s foremost disciple and consort, Yeshe Tsogyal, and the life of one of her modern emanations.
To Women of the Way
In these seventeenth-century poems, women Chan teachers and senior students pay homage to the women who taught and inspired them.
Who Was Miaozong?
Miriam Levering on the life of Miaozong, a laywoman turned abbess who stood her ground in dharma battles with some of the great Chan masters of her day.
Zenshin’s Example
Jan Chozen Bays asks us to consider the example of the first person to be ordained as a Buddhist in Japan — also the first Buddhist in Japan to be persecuted for her faith.
From OM to AH: The Spiritual Evolution of Allen Ginsberg
Review of Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics by Tony Trigilio.
The Seeds of Peace
Richard Reoch, president of Shambhala International, says the same practices that bring peace within can help bring peace to the world.
The Interdependence Movement
Review of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming by Paul Hawken.
What is Samvrti Satya?
Samvrti Satya as defined by Andy Karr, a Buddhist teacher in the Vajrayana tradition.
Being in Real Time
The late Dainin Katagiri Roshi explores Dogen’s concept of Being-Time and how to work with it our daily lives.
Thus Have I Not Heard
Dharma archivists are running out of time to save precious recordings of the pioneering teachers who brought Buddhism to the West.