“When you sit,” teaches Norman Fischer, “noticing the breath and the body on the chair or cushion, noticing the thoughts and feelings in the mind and heart and perhaps also the sounds in the room and the stillness, something else also begins to come into view.” Life.
Frank Ostaseski speaks about the questions and issues that arise when we find ourselves needing to care for ill or dying loved ones.
After a life time of contemplating death and caring for the dying, Zen teacher Joan Halifax reflects on her life’s work.
Here is Cathy Wyman’s reflection on her father’s life and death, and ultimately, how a life lived in fear cuts us off from those we love.
Kerri Power on the nature of real kindness. “Just responding to someone’s need with simplicity, without expecting anything in return.”
Carolyn Rose Gimian looks at what we can learn from the examples of Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa, the spritual forebears of the Kagyu Lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism.
In difficult times it takes effort to stay grounded in the present, but it is only there that we will find a place unclouded by hope and fear.
As I listen, read, and look at the news these days, I’m served a steady diet of panic and fear, but Buddhism has a way to deal with it.
Meditation wasn’t the great panacea Susan Piver had hoped for, but it did lead to a surprising discovery: to fear less you’ve got to open more
As our world grows more chaotic and unpredictable, says Margaret Wheatley, we’re asking questions that can only be answered by spiritual traditions.
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