Pema Chödrön shares why the simple practice of taking a break from our usual thoughts is the most important thing we can do with our lives.
The Path Through Obstacles
Obstacles aren’t to be avoided. When we apply the right antidotes, they are the path itself. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche diagnoses the different types of obstacles we face and prescribes the proper remedies.
The World We Have
Only when we combine our concern for the planet with practice will we have to tools to make the necessary changes to address the environmental crisis.
Earth Gathas
Photo by Paul Davis.These short verses bring awareness, peace, and joy to simple activities, and remind us that Earth provides us with precious gifts every day.
Why We Need New Ways of Thinking
As the world faces problems of unprecedented complexity and threat, we need new ways of thinking to make it through.
Kindness Is the Most Important Thing
Melvin McLeod interviews the Seventeenth Karmapa on his first American tour about practicing Buddhism in the Western world.
Of Course I’m Angry
As his marriage falls apart, Gabriel Cohen has a chance encounter with Buddhism that shows him the anger is his alone, and serves no one.
One Heart
Effort and longing, frailties and aspirations—we’re in this together says Natalie Goldberg, and it is so much bigger than we are.
The Mindful Society
Not long ago seen as fringey and foreign, mindfulness practice is going mainstream. Andrea Miller looks at five fields with mindful living.
The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies
Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.