Sylvia Boorstein on how the mind manufactures thoughts the way a popcorn machine makes popcorn-and what’s delightful about that.
Barry Boyce looks at urbanization from the point of view of the city mouse/country mouse fable.
A lightly fictionalized story by the late Maura O’Halloran — whose impact is still felt today — about the first months she spent at a Zen monastery in Japan.
Aram Saroyan on the ordinary experience that changes our lives – if we only notice it.
In the third in a four-part series by Dr. Reginald Ray on the “self” in Buddhism, he explores how we create the storyline of “self” and how to deconstruct it.
“As we learn to abide peacefully,” says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, “we become familiar with a healthy sense of self. Like the Buddha, we become strong, caring, clear-minded individuals in harmony with ourselves and our environment.”
It amazes me when students say their hips are tight as they’re sitting on the floor with their legs spread. Their hips are open, but their minds are closed.
What emails make up for in speed, they lose in sensuality. Barry Boyce on the lost art of letter writing.
Traveling the breath, Zen priest and yoga teacher Edward Espe Brown has found himself in some unexpected places.
In this second in a 4-part series on the “self” in Buddhism, Dr. Reginald Ray explains that the “self,” though a fiction, is a response to naked fear.
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