A tail, a bundle of guts, and a smear of blood—how one dead rat continues to inspire Anne Cushman’s practice.
We can see awakening in the world around us, but we can also turn the telescope inward and look directly at our mind.
The tantric path of Buddhism is complex and arduous, but its surprising culmination is the practice of spaciousness, ease, and simplicity.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's teacher, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Photo by Wonderlane.Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche looksat the role and the influence of the guru on learning in the vajrayana tradition.
Anne Klein on the foundational practices of Dzogchen, through which we can meet the dharma with our entire being and dissolve conceptual mind into the “great expanse” that is liberation.
Avalokiteshvara. Photo by Cea.Avalokiteshvara. Photo by Cea.Eric Holm on how visualization practice helps us overcome ego and pacify obstacles. Includes “A Visualization Practice: Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.” The buddhadharma is renowned for its skillful methods of meditative training. In Vajrayana Buddhism, many of these methods are based on the visualization of archetypal wisdom forms, or deities. Visualization […]
Tshechu, a religious festival in Bhutan. Photo by Arian Zwegers.While Westerners tend to view it as superstition or symbolism, Reginald Ray argues that spiritual ritual is at the very heart of tantric Buddhist practice.
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