Category: Buddhist Wisdom
Till We Meet Again
Robert Thurman pays tribute to Daido Loori and his legacy in American Buddhism.
Becoming Truly Alive
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.
Forum: Toughing It Out
How Practice Centers Are Dealing With the Recession: A panel discussion with Bob Agoglia, Jon Barbieri, Evan Kavanagh and Susan O’Connell.
Commentary: We’ve Come a Long Way
Charles Prebish reflects on the changes in American Buddhism that have occurred in the thirty years since the publication of his seminal work.
Hidden No More
Joan Sutherland reviews "Zen Women: Beyond Tea-Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters", by Grace Schireson.
Lives Lived: Remembering Lisa Hilliard
Eve Rosenthal remembers the late Lisa Hilliard, a practitioner from the Shambhala sangha of Halifax.
Book Briefs – Winter 2009
Brief summaries of Buddhist books from the Winter 2009 issue of the Buddhadharma magazine.
Karen Armstrong unveils The Charter for Compassion
Author and former nun turned prolific religious historian Karen Armstrong is unveiling the words of her proposed "Charter for Compassion."
First Light
Diane Ackerman, best-selling author of A Natural History of the Senses, offers a series of meditations on dawn and decay, koans and creation.
What Mindfulness Does — An excerpt from Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness
From Deborah Schoeberlein, we learn what mindfulness is, what it isn't, and how the benefits of its practice might show themselves.