Category: Buddhist Wisdom
Fearless Simplicity
An excerpt from “Fearless Simplicity,” by Tsokyni Rinpoche, from In the Face of Fear: Buddhist Wisdom for Challenging Times.
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.
About a Poem: Pico Iyer on a haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Pico Iyer on a haiku by Kobayashi Issa.
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?"
Books in Brief: Thich Nhat Hanh’s “The Blooming of a Lotus”
Claire Heisler reviews the revised edition of The Blooming of a Lotus, by Thich Nhat Hanh (translated by Annabel Laity).
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.
Books in Brief – July 2009
Brief summaries of Buddhist books from the July 2009 issue of Lion's Roar magazine.