Category: Buddhist Wisdom
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.
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"
Reader Essays: Politics
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to politics.
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.
Who Will Teach the Dharma?
A panel discussion with Ponlop Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Yvonne Rand, Ajahn Amaro and Richard Shrobe.
The Simple Presence of Attention
Three talks by Toni Packer, a resident teacher of Springwater Center, in Springwater, New York.
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.