In this commentary from the Fall 2018 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on the idea of “wise hope” and why we should open ourselves to it.
Help When Your Heart Breaks
Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.
Joan Halifax: Fearless and Fragile
After a life time of contemplating death and caring for the dying, Zen teacher Joan Halifax reflects on her life’s work.
A New Democracy
Part one of Joan Halifax’s teaching, A New Democracy: The Koan of Servant Leadership, which she gave on January 21, 2009 at Upaya Zen Center.
The Llama and the Shmuck
I confide my feelings to Bubo as if he were a therapist; he doesn’t comment because he’s a Freudian llama.