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Readers’ Essays: Therapy
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to therapy.
What is a Moktak?
A moktak as defined by Chong Hae Sunim, a Zen abbot, and Master Seung Sahn, a teacher of Korean Zen Buddhism.
Attending to the Deathless
“When the heart is released from clinging,” said the Buddha, “then consciousness does not land anywhere. That state, I tell you, is without sorrow, afflication or despair.” Ajahn Amaro on abiding in the consciousness that is completely beyond conditioned phenomena—neither supporting them nor supported by them.
Directly Experience the Nature of Mind
Instruction on Mahamudra vipashyana meditation by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.
Smells like Teen Spirit
Todd Stein on how Buddhist communities are tailoring programs specifically for teens and young adults, making a big difference in some young lives.
The Cushion Or the Couch?
Psychotherapy & Buddhism, according to pschyoteraphist Barry Magid.
Emptiness / Buddhanature
The Buddhist schools are rich and varied in their perspectives, but these many points of view all advance the Buddhist concept of the middle view.
Ask the Teachers: “If there is no self, who is it that keeps getting reincarnated?”
Doesn’t the idea of reincarnation imply that there is a thing or self that can be referred to as existing, which passes from one life to the next?
Reader essays: Relationships
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to relationships.
Free from Mind, Discrimination and Consciousness
Master Sheng-yen is abbot of the Nung Ch’an monastery in Taiwan. This interview was conducted during a ten-day silent illumination retreat he led.