Sylvia Boorstein on where safety is really found in a life with no guarantees.
Elaine Pagels’ Search for Christ the Mystic
Photo by Aaron Burden.Who was Christ, really? Barry Boyce profiles Elaine Pagels, the leading authority on Christianity’s suppressed gospels.
Fiddling Around Cape Breton
Photo by Dennis Jarvis.Dan Menaker loses his New York self in the music and dance of Cape Breton, where the fiddles fuel the ceilidhs up and down the coast.
Koan Practice: The Great Way is Not Difficult If You Just Don’t Pick and Choose
Photo by Els.Home to care for his dying mother, Zen teacher John Tarrant discovers what it means for himself and those around him to give up picking and choosing.
Searching for the Truth that Is Far Below the Search
Photo by Mark Hunter.Below the level of thoughts, concepts and even emotions are the subtle ways that life is felt directly in the body. David Rome explains how to Focus.
Not Every Gauntlet Requires Picking Up
Not every challenge – nor every thought – needs to be acted on, says Sylvia Boorstein. We could be happier just letting go.
The Wisdom of the Body and the Search for the Self
From the impermanent to the heroic to the sacred—The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche on how the view of body changes and evolves in the three vehicles of Buddhism.
Thoughts about Consciousness while Cutting in the Brain

Novelist Joseph McElroy watches Neurosurgeon Werner Doyle at work in the operating room, and together they ponder the mystery of brain and mind.
When the Candle is Blown Out: On The Death of Katagiri Roshi
Photo by Shawn Carpenter.Natalie Goldberg offers a remembrance of her teacher and a cri de coeur over all that is left incomplete and unanswered by his death.
Three in One: A Buddhist Trinity
The “three bodies of the Buddha” may seem like a remote construct, says Reginald Ray, but the three kayas are present in every moment of our experience.







