Category: Teachings
Lama Zopa on Caring for Your Animals
Rinpoche had these general suggestions for ways students could care for pets in everyday life and at their death.
Ask the Teachers: How does one deal with sexuality within the sangha?
The teachers are asked "How does one deal with one’s sexuality on an individual level, within sangha, and especially with Buddhists in a teaching role?
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.
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.
On Becoming Karmapa
An exclusive interview with His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa by Melvin McLeod.
What is Dukkha?
Dukkha or suffering is pervasive and can range from sickness, aging, or death to vague feelings of anxiety and dissatisfaction.
Beyond Carrot and Stick
The question we all face is, what will make our journey genuine dharma and not another spiritual fantasy or creation of ego?