Category: Dharma in Daily Life
Bedside hospice volunteer Stan Goldberg on offering forgiveness
Stan Goldberg on how doing bedside hospice volunteering has taught him the importance of offering forgiveness.
Booze and drugs and dharma: What’s your stance?
Buddhism's Fifth Precept is to abstain from taking intoxicants. Does this mean a "real" Buddhist doesn't have a drink or a toke?
Talk about pest control.
Is there any creature more terrifying than the scorpion? They pack quite a lot of punch, despite their tiny bodies. And a lot of flavor, too.
Erring and Erring, We Walk the Unerring Path
If we use them as opportunities to work with our mind, all our mistakes, confusion, and difficulties become an unerring path of awakening.
Any Last Thoughts?
Andrea Miller interviews Simon Critchley, philosophy professor at the New School and author of The Book of Dead Philosophers.
Hard Times, Simple Times
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.
Ask the Teachers: How do you know if you should be with one teacher or another?
the teachers are asked "How do you know if you should be with one teacher or another?"
Sylvia Boorstein on death: Any day might be the day
Sylvia Boorstein recounts a story to exemplify the suddenness of death, and how we must confront that reality.
The Smoking Monk
Should Buddhists smoke? The fifth precept of Buddhism tells us to "refrain from taking intoxicants." This seems pretty clear.