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From The Under 35 Project: “How to save your life, over and over and over again”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project by Ishita Gupta, about living up to our own expectations.
See “Floating Echo,” the inflatable Buddha in New York’s East River
At Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, New York, a 10-foot inflatable Buddha statue sits in the East River while pedestrians pass by.
From The Under 35 Project: “Cushion and Apron — On Meditation and Waitressing”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project by Sarah Fox, on the junction between meditation and waitressing.
What a Wall Teaches – Lin Jensen on Zen meditation’s enduring lesson
Author and Zen teacher Lin Jensen tells how meditation's surprising first lesson still resonates with him.
Buddhist and Muslim leaders jointly condemn violence in Burma
American Buddhist and Muslim leaders have issued a joint statement condemning violence between the two religious communities in Myanmar.
From The Under 35 Project: Hope to Faith
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project by Chris W., about how a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh helped him confront his drug addiction.
From The Under 35 Project: “Captain Hook and Indian #2: A Love Story Ruined by Epically Unrealistic Expectations”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project by Susan Yao, about the pain of attachment to unrealistic expectations.
From The Under 35 Project: “The Dharma is in the Medicine”
The Under 35 Project Stacy Chivers writes about working with sick people and offering them "love, patience, and compassion."
Something to Believe In
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyl on the power of belief to move us out of a small, self-focused world and into a bigger way of being.
An ICU for the Soul
When a friend is dealt a heavy emotional blow, Pico Iyer suggests to her that silence and stillness might be the best medicine.
Tara the Liberator
Lama Palden Drolma explains the significance of Tara,“she who ferries beings across the ocean of samsara.”
La Bienveillance
From the November 2012 issue of Lion's Roar, Trudy Goodman gives a short teaching on "la bienveillance", the French concept of metta.
Don’t Go There
As a Jew and a Briton, Henry Shukman had avoided all things German. But he said yes when asked him to teach at a zendo in the Black Forest.
Jolly Good
There is a natural healthiness and sense of goodness we can all experience personally, says Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on the Shambhala teachings. "Then we will discover what kind of joy is needed to help the world. We find that the joy of warriorship is always needed."
From The Under 35 Project: “Into the Wild”
From The Under 35 Project: Jennifer Horton discovered Buddhism a little less than a year ago, and her world hasn’t been the same since.
Audio: San Francisco Zen Center at fifty
A recording of a discussion on the San Francisco Zen Center between Norman Fischer, Steve Stücky, Susan O'Connell, and Michael Krasny on California NPR.
From The Under 35 Project: “Out of Mind, Heart Grow Fonder”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project, by Angela Allan, on how Buddhist practice buoys a long-distance relationship.
From The Under 35 Project: “Smiling at Strangers”
Here's the latest from The Under 35 Project, by Leslie Gossett, about the power of creating your own story.
Read and sign this open letter from the Buddhist community regarding Islamophobia
A group of Buddhists has issued this open letter expressing their concerns about Islamophobia from governments and the Buddhist community.
Video: See more of Samsara
There's a new trailer out for Samsara, director Ron Fricke's upcoming sequel, of sorts, to his 1992 masterpiece, Baraka.