“The current dot.com IPO mania is a lot like the ‘tulipomania’ craze that overtook Holland in the seventeenth century. (It didn’t end well.)”
A Taste of Freedom
After more than thirteen years behind bars, a prisoner’s experience of freedom is a reminder of his guru and the cheerfulness available at every moment.
Confessions of a Spiritual Shopper
Don Morreale on checking out the Buddhist scene and finding what’s right for you. (It only took him thirty years to decide.)
The Denial of the Universal
“If there is nothing universal then there is nothing genuinely spiritual anywhere in the universe, nor can there ever be.”
So the Darkness Shall be the Light
Gretel Ehrlich ventures into the north of Greenland during the Arctic summer of no sunset, and reminisces on her surreal journey.
Why We Travel: A Love Affair with the World
Like falling in love, travel throws us into a state of delight, uncertainty and self-discovery. Like lovers, travelers both give and receive.
Multitudes and uni-forms
“When we dress uniformly we can return to nakedness, to even a nakedness beyond nakedness, revealing the fundamental humanness beneath our trappings.”
The White Darkness
“Never have I witnessed a phenomenon as raw or as powerful as the spectacle of Vodoun possession.”
There Are No Words
Roshi Bernard Glassman discusses his practice of bereavement following the death of his wife and dharma partner, Sensei Sandra Jishu Holmes.
I Vow
When we take the precepts of a Bodhisattva, with every one we say, “I Vow.” What does this mean?

