Category: Dharma & Society

The best place to die

Where is the best place to die? Jesse Hiltz talks about the power of communal living and communal dying.

Miya Ando, an artist who works with steel canvas, talks with Claire Heisler about the spiritual practice that informs her art work.

Punk rock. Divorce. Buddhism. Heidiminx explains how she developed her DIY approach to fixing the world.

Marianne Elliott on how to continue our practice during times of violence, by nourishing hope and mindfulness.

Jesse Hiltz considers the definition of "heritage" after Mount Wutai receives a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation.

Could you summarize each of the eight major world religions in 140 characters? Stephen Prothero can.

Steve Silberman reflects on a picture from the Iran elections of a protester helping a wounded riot policeman out of the crowd to safety:

Jetsunma Akhon Lhamo is not just known as the incarnation of Padmasambhava’s spiritual consort – she's also in the music industry.

Andrea Miller talks to Julia Cameron about her new book, Faith and Will, as well as about her classic bestseller, The Artist's Way.

Lin Jensen says the rising temperature of the earth is a fever, symptomatic of a pathological infection: the pandemic of human greed.