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Creature Comfort
Dogs comfort their human companions and parrots care for their injured mates. When we increase our understanding of animal compassion, says behavioral ecologist Joanna Burger, we understand more about ourselves.
A Bell With a Crack in It
It may not ring as clearly, but it can ring as sweetly. Diane Ackerman on her husband's stroke and the language of healing.
The Best-Laid Plans
A vomiting child in an airport hotel—it wasn’t the vacation she had in mind. Anne Cushman on the teachings of a trip gone awry.
The Mindful Way to Self-Compassion
A review of The Mindful Way Through Anxiety and True Belonging: Mindful Practices to Help You Overcome Loneliness
Earth Dharma: “Oxygen in My Bones”
Jill S. Schneiderman's Earth Dharma column explores the linking between breathing meditation and human physiology.
Review: US premiere of “My Reincarnation”
The US debut of My Reincarnation previewed to a full house at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City on May 18.
Beyond All Attachment
It’s not enough to renounce attachment to this life, says the Sakya Trizin. To be liberated we must transcend the idea of reality altogether.
Whose Book of the Dead?
A review of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography" by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Thoughts from the Newark Peace Education Summit
Alicia Fordham shares moments and reflections from her visit to the landmark three-day event, the Newark Peace Education Summit.
Do science and Buddhism agree on the idea of character?
Alan Brush finds a scientific discussion of "character" that closely parallels the Buddhist conception of aggregates.
One mom’s key to meditating with baby? Lowering the bar
New mom Diana Winston "desperately wanted" her ideas about meditation with her baby to work. Here she shares her most successful experiments.
We Need Action and Reflection
Kyo Maclear discusses how we might find relief and perspective when such a crisis seems to take over the news, and, for many of us, our minds.
The Dalai Lama on the death of Osama bin Laden: What did he say?
The Dalai Lama's office is seeking to clarify His Holiness's comments on the death of Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden’s death: Reactions from a Buddhist or mindful perspective
A series of Buddhist perspectives and reactions in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.
Too Much Information: Kyo Maclear on being stuck between Zen and CNN after Japan’s disaster
Visual arts writer and novelist Kyo Maclear shares her experiences of trying to make sense of the news of Japan’s disaster last month.
After a theft, author Brian Haycock considers “Letting it Go”
He may write noir, but that doesn't mean author Brian Haycock is comfortable with the reality of crime – especially when it happens to him.
My Reincarnation to have sneak preview at NYC’s Rubin Museum
The Rubin Museum will be presenting a preview of the film My Reincarnation, "an epic documentary on Dzogchen master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu."
Open letter to Dennis Genpo Merzel signed by sixty-six Zen teachers
Zen teachers have issued and signed the following open letter to Genpo Merzel. Also his own personal statement.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao on “The Strength to Bear”
Marguerite Manteau-Rao's thoughts on how the process of liberating herself "has been made possible by a steady practice of meditation,".