Category: Dharma in Daily Life
The Paradox of Happiness
Real happiness is what we all want, but none of our strategies for finding it seem to work. Maybe it's the search for happiness that makes us unhappy. John Tarrant has some thoughts on why the Buddha smiles.
Forum: The Importance of Study
The Importance of Study: a panel discussion with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, John Daido Loori, Christina Feldman and Georges Dreyfus.
The Cushion Or the Couch?
Psychotherapy & Buddhism, according to pschyoteraphist Barry Magid.
Jonathan Schell on the Choice We Face
The world faces a critical choice: whether to use military power or nonviolent political means to resolve our affairs. Jonathan Schell on this choice.
A Courageous Activity
It may look as if we're doing nothing on the cushion, but in fact we're cultivating peace. From that point of view, the practice of meditation is a very courageous activity.
Reader Essays: Politics
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to politics.
Ordained At Last
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, formerly known as Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, became the first Thai woman to receive full ordination as a Theravadin nun.
Profile: Zen Hospice Society
People who enter the Zen Hospice Project are not seeking a path of meditation, and they will not hear much about “Zen” or “Buddhism” while they are there.
