Buddhist scholar Peter Harvey explores the facts, myths, and deeper truths of the Buddha’s life story.
Where Are the Stars in This Dark Night?
We believe that growth can be endless, that consumption need have no limits, that meaning is found in things, that aggression brings peace. Margaret Wheatley asks: What happened to our ideals?
Meals That Heal the Heart
Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, LionsRoar.com’s Lilly Greenblatt explores the practice of eating.
Shrine room at Tsogyelgar Dharma Center destroyed by fire
On April 15, a fire consumed a three-storey renovated barn at Tsogyelgar Dharma Center, destroying the shrine room on the top floor.
Waking Up to Your World
Pema Chödrön shares why the simple practice of taking a break from our usual thoughts is the most important thing we can do with our lives.
The Moon Is Me, I Am the Moon
We are all one and the same. This is the experience of Zen. So teaches Shodo Harada Roshi in his book of original calligraphies.
Eat! Eat!
Forced to overeat as a child, Sharon Suh finally learns for herself what is enough.
5 Practices for Nurturing Happiness
Photo © Unified Buddhist Church.“The essence of our practice can be described as transforming suffering into happiness,” says Thich Nhat Hanh.
The Fourfold Grace of Won Buddhism
Won Buddhism teaches that we can develop a sense of gratitude for everything — good and bad — by studying the interconnected nature of life. This is the teaching of the Fourfold Grace.
Who Was Otagaki Rengetsu?
Grace Schireson on the life, art, and poetics of the Zen nun Otagaki Rengetsu, a woman “humbled by life’s blows as well as its beauty.”