Category: Dharma in Daily Life

A Successful Subculture

James Wilson discusses how Zen Buddhism in America has shifted from a counterculture religion to a institutionalized normality.

There's one notable difficulty to being a Buddhist baseball fan: attachment to the outcome of the game.

An interview with writer and activist Allan Badiner on the relationship between Buddhism and psychadelics in America.

Stan Goldberg gains sobering insights into death and his own insecurities during a retreat with Ribur Rinpoche.

On December 4, 2010, students will gather in Mexico, to celebrate the Internal Consecration of the Great Stupa for World Peace.

Psychologist Paul Ekman reveals Charles Darwin’s real view of compassion—and it’s not what you might think.

Taking her newborn to an assisted living facility, Misha Becker discovers the mysterious kinship between the very old and the very young.

The “eight heavy rules” institutionalize women’s second-class status in Buddhist monasteries, and in most lineages women are denied full ordination.

Roshi's Diamond Sangha has now released an official obituary, and has now announced an August 22 memorial service in Honolulu.

The eight heavy rules are the result of historical and social circumstances, explains Buddhist scholar Janet Gyatso—and times have changed.