Category: Buddhist Wisdom
We Will All take This Journey
Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen sits down with Shambhala Sun's Melvin McLeod to discuss illness, loss and spiritual growth.
Meeting in the Darkness
With the people who live with chronic hopelessness and fear, we try to live comfortably in their darkness. And that's the hardest thing of all.
Natalie Goldberg Puts It All Into Words
Writing is where I give everything. I know that when I'm doing sitting meditation, I hold back. Writing is where I put my ass on the line.
Queer Spirituality
Peter Sweasey discusses sexual identity as help and hindrance on the path towards spiritual discovery.
There’s No Place to Go But Up — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation
A mind-to-mind exchange between Maya Angelou and bell hooks, two important African-American women writers, who care and think deeply about life.
Joan Halifax and Her Robe of Many Tears
Joan Halifax reflects on her life of science, stories and spiritual search, and her work now with the great teacher, death.
The Kosmos According to Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber discusses how to integrate many levels of knowledge from the most concrete to the most etheral into a great unified view of the living universe.
The Ground of Basic Goodness
The Shambhala Sun is based on a simple, commonplace experience, says Chogyam Trungpa. Noticing it, we discover the basic goodness of our world and our lives as human beings. Cultivating it through meditation, we can cheer up and help others.
The Mahamudra Lineage
Osel Tendzin on Mahamudra and the lineage of Naropa, Marpa & Milarepa.
Padmasambhava gives Advice to King Trisong Detsen I
A translated passage in which Padmasambhava gives advice to Trisong Detsen I following the consecration of a construction site.