Andrea Miller talks with the well-known American yoga teacher Sarah Powers about what has made her life meaningful.
Baby Boomers, Get Out of Your Funk
There are still battles to be fought. Gen-Xer Rod Meade Sperry gives the baby boomers a friendly talking-to.
The Cynic and the Mystic
Within every meditator, says Peter J. Conradi, the cynic and the mystic battle.
The Suffering System
David Loy says many social problems are rooted in a deluded sense of collective self and that greed, ill will, and delusion are often institutionalized.
Is it Baseball Or Is It Zen?
Andrew Schelling calls for baseball’s return to the Zen economy of simple, rough pleasures, to the wabi-sabi spirit of its early years.
Would You Help Your Parents End Their Lives?
The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides (A Memoir) By John West Counterpoint, 2009; 272 pp.; $25.00 (cloth) In The Last Goodnights, John West, at the time a Seattle-based lawyer, recounts how he assisted the suicide of both his parents ten years ago. West’s father, Jolly, was a world-renowned psychiatrist at UCLA, and […]
About a Poem: David Rome on William Stafford’s Like a Little Stone
About a Poem: David Rome analyzes William Stafford’s poem, “Like a Little Stone”.
Books in Brief – July 2009
Brief summaries of Buddhist books from the July 2009 issue of Lion’s Roar magazine.
Barry Boyce’s The Mindful Society: The Contemplative Curriculum
“We’re at the beginning of the development of a major new academic field”, says Professor Harold Roth about Contemplative Studies.