Photo by Alex Siale. Photo by Alex Siale. Sylvia Boorstein offers guidance for recovering from confusing distress and restoring your mind-state to one of comfort. The GPS in my car never gets mad at me, no matter how many times I turn to avoid the torn-up street she has recommended. She just says, “Recalculating” and directs me to turn […]
Photo by David Gabriel Fischer.“There are no human enemies,” says Sylvia Boorstein, “only confused people needing help.”
"Angry People." Illustration by Alvaro Tapia.Does spiritual practice mean we can never get angry? No, says Sylvia Boorstein, it’s all how you work with it.
Sylvia Boorstein answers a reader’s question about how to be happy when her children are not.
You can join Sylvia Boorstein, along with fellow buddhist teachers Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Melissa Myozen Blacker, at the Shambhala Sun‘s community retreat at Omega, Waking Up in Every Moment. Click here for details. Illustration by Michelle Laporte. I was born in 1936 in Brooklyn. Yiddish was the language we spoke at home. My father taught […]
"Melanerpes formicivorus -Madera Canyon, Arizona, USA -female-8-2c" by -Kathy & sam. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.Sylvia Boorstein tries to reconcile her benevolent heart and her murderous thoughts about unrelenting woodpeckers.
We suffer, according to Buddhism, not because there’s anything wrong with us but simply because we misunderstand the nature of reality.
Embrace Change: leading Buddhist teachers and writers offer stories, teachings, and meditations to help us embrace the change in our lives.
A letter to the Buddhist community from teacher Sylvia Boorstein, to build a Community Meditation Hall at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
My friends are teachers, as I am, but in both cases we are not trying to teach each other. Rather we are friends learning together.
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