Deconstructing the “Self”

In the third in a four-part series by Dr. Reginald Ray on the "self" in Buddhism, he explores how we create the storyline of "self" and how to deconstruct it.

Why Me?

In this second in a 4-part series on the "self" in Buddhism, Dr. Reginald Ray explains that the "self," though a fiction, is a response to naked fear.

Savasana

Tara Bray sets out to uncover the origin and meaning of savasana – corpse pose – and meditates on her life as a young girl who lost her mother too early.

Lion's Roar

Thinking Non-Thinking

John Daido Loori, Roshi explains why non-thinking is right thought in this commentary on Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo, Case 129: "Yoashan's Non-Thinking"

Lion's Roar

Reader Essays: Politics

Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to politics.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Never Born, Never Ceasing

A teaching on the nature of mind by the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on The Hundred Verses of Advice by Padampa Sangye.

Ordained At Last

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, formerly known as Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, became the first Thai woman to receive full ordination as a Theravadin nun.

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Who Will Teach the Dharma?

A panel discussion with Ponlop Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Yvonne Rand, Ajahn Amaro and Richard Shrobe.

Lion's Roar

The Simple Presence of Attention

Three talks by Toni Packer, a resident teacher of Springwater Center, in Springwater, New York.

Lion's Roar

Politics & Dharma: No Separation

I did not begin to study Buddhism until I was forty-three years old. After years of political activism, I took lay vows.