Like leaves in the autumn or wood in the fire, all things pass. But, there is a moment in which we can see things as they are.
When a car drove over her foot, Carla Beharry felt like her anger would never end. She soon learned that the only way out of suffering is through it.
As his brother’s mind deteriorates, Cary Groner grapples with troubling questions about the ephemerality of the self.
Ephrat Livni reflects on years of spiritual study with the moon as her guide.
Towering stacks of newspapers, a mountain of clippings — James Kullander feels they might contain some fact that would transform his life.
Sometimes we’re committed to our meditation practice and sometimes we drift away. No matter what, Matthew Kohut believes we can always find our way home to the cushion.
Going back and forth on the question of whether or not to eat meat? For a Buddhist practitioner, vegetarianism is something to chew on.
When Grace Schireson gets it all wrong with her socks, she learns what’s more important than the rules.
A young monk in Nepal practiced so many prostrations that he left his handprint pressed into a mat. Vanessa Sasson can’t forget him.
Armed with a trash picker and a garbage bag, Lina Blanchet finds an unusual opportunity to discover the sacred nature of life, in all of its guises.
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