Giving up, giving in, just plain giving—Sharon Salzberg says that’s the truly transformative experience.
Photo by Christopher Michel.A teaching on practices to generate bodhichitta by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Alice Walker (left), photo by Virginia DeBolt. Sharon Salzberg (right), photo by Fabio Fillipi. A conversation about loving-kindness between Sharon Salzberg and Alice Walker.
When we accept dukkha or suffering in all its forms we stop denying it. A person is noble when one understands dukkha and how to work with it.
According to the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, spirituality means relating with the working basis of one’s existence, which is one’s state of mind.
“God is a fire,” said Nikos Kazantzakis. “He burns and we burn with Him.” Art, passion, and Zen are fires too—burning the self, leaving behind only ashes and essence.
Even before he was president, Obama was a 21st global citizen, helping us to transcend parochialism, tribalism, and that most pernicious of fictions — race.
Buddhist practice is inherently political, so here are eight views on how to move society along the path to liberation from political suffering.
Medicine Buddha. Photo by/via geraldford
After 13 years as a Buddhist nun, Sister Dang Nghiem looks back on her medical career and realizes monastic practice and medicine aren’t that different.
Awash in the pain of betrayal and a failed marriage, Laura Munson practices Pema Chödrön’s teachings on loving-kindness. It’s hard but it helps.
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