Category: Dharma in Daily Life

I Will Do It

Llundup Damcho reports on the Seventeeth Karmapa’s vow to reinstate full ordination for women in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Exploring the spirit, subtleties, and relevance of Buddhist ethics: a discussion with Norman Fischer, Lama Palden Drolma, and Andrew Olendzki.

“How can I ever repay you for your teaching?” Thanissaro Bhikkhu answers this common question: “By being intent on practicing.”

Gaylon Ferguson on the importance of sangha communities in the Buddhist tradition.

My friends are teachers, as I am, but in both cases we are not trying to teach each other. Rather we are friends learning together.

How do you go about finding a teacher (and by extension, a community) that’s right for you?

Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama’s unerring ability to home in on those who most need his love.

We live a kind of artificial life, says Thich Nhat Hanh, lost in worries and anger. Our practice is to wake up and live each moment fully.

Eve Rosenthal remembers the late Lisa Hilliard, a practitioner from the Shambhala sangha of Halifax.

Author and former nun turned prolific religious historian Karen Armstrong is unveiling the words of her proposed "Charter for Compassion."