Category: Dharma in Daily Life
Koan Practice: The Great Way is Not Difficult If You Just Don’t Pick and Choose
Home to care for his dying mother, Zen teacher John Tarrant discovers what it means for himself and those around him to give up picking and choosing.
When the Candle is Blown Out: On The Death of Katagiri Roshi
Natalie Goldberg offers a remembrance of her teacher and a cri de coeur over all that is left incomplete and unanswered by his death.
Not Every Gauntlet Requires Picking Up
Not every challenge – nor every thought – needs to be acted on, says Sylvia Boorstein. We could be happier just letting go.
Make Your Decisions for Others
The reason it's so hard to make decisions, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, is that we're confused about what we really want. If we're motivated by the happiness and welfare of others, we'll have no trouble making clear and wise decisions.
Be Peace Embodied
"And if peace is their goal, they will in the field of politics be themselves peace embodied," Charles R. Johnson on the principles of enlightened politics
The Cho-mos of Ladakh: From Servants to Practitioners
Jan Willis reveals why and how life is getting better for the nuns of Ladakh after the Sakyadhita conference in 1995.
The Great Love
As well as its famed doctrines of emptiness and nonattachment, the heart of Buddhism is the love and compassion we feel toward all beings.
How to Study the Dharma
Understanding Buddhism, says Reginald Ray, takes place in stages of ever-deepening and more direct experience.
Readers’ Essays: Creativity
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to creativity.
