Category: Teachings
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
On Becoming Karmapa
An exclusive interview with His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa by Melvin McLeod.
What is Dukkha?
Dukkha or suffering is pervasive and can range from sickness, aging, or death to vague feelings of anxiety and dissatisfaction.
Glimpses of Awakening
In the gaps we notice moments of clarity, wakefulness, and peace. Enlightened mind turns out to be very ordinary and present, says Judy Lief.
This Very Mind, Empty and Luminous
We can see awakening in the world around us, but we can also turn the telescope inward and look directly at our mind.
Beyond Carrot and Stick
The question we all face is, what will make our journey genuine dharma and not another spiritual fantasy or creation of ego?
Forum: Does Buddhism Make You Happier?
Debating the Third Noble Truth: three teachers discuss what the Buddha meant when he promised the "end of suffering".
Without a Sangha, is My Practice Moot?
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Narayan Helen Liebenson, and the late Zenkei Blanche Hartman explore the meaning of sangha.
Phrases and Spaces
Zen practitioners don’t "work on" koans. Koans work on them. Norman Fischer offers a poet’s take on the phrases and spaces of Zen practice, including his favorite: “Who is sick?”
Prince of the Ascetics
Charles Johnson imagines in this short story the very moment Siddhartha became the Buddha.
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?
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.
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.