Category: Buddhist Wisdom
The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies
Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.
Coming Home to the Body
The practice of meditation is a journey of return to who we really are, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer. We come home to the body.
Evaluating Eckhart
Review of "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
Discovering Our Nobility: A Psychology of Original Goodness
Prominent Buddhist teacher and psychologist Jack Kornfield proposes a new psychology, one based not on a model of sickness but on Buddhism’s belief in the inherent nobility, beauty, and freedom of human nature.
Burning with the Fire of Shingon
Richard Payne's account of his experience with the Shingon tradition.
What is a Koan?
A koan as defined by Steven Heine, a scholar of Zen Buddhism at the Florida International University.
The Karmapa in America
The Seventeenth Karmapa, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism, is making his historic first visit to the West.