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Intoxicants: Name Your Poison

I like to get a little out of it now and then, but I don't like to get too out of it too much, and thus my rule is to do as little as possible of any intoxicants, including caffeine.

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Readers’ Essays: Intoxicants

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

Just Don’t Do It

Sylvia Boorstein on the struggle of adjusting to new circumstances. Dealing with that stress? Maybe it's time to just take a break.

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Readers’ Essays: Therapy

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

Go With the Flow

You’re mostly made of water, says Cyndi Lee, so why not act that way?

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Reader essays: Relationships

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

The Thing about Relationships…

Let's cultivate clear seeing, rather than holding a hierarchy of images in which ordinary life, people and relationships are held as mundane and second-best.

Adventures in Breathing

Traveling the breath, Zen priest and yoga teacher Edward Espe Brown has found himself in some unexpected places.

Yoga Chic and the First Noble Truth

Yoga and meditation are ultimately about turning our eyes away from the airbrushed images of the outside world and looking deep within our own hearts.

Two Roads Diverged

Four experts, Stephen Cope, Victoria Austin, Richard Freeman, Jill Satterfield, on combining yoga and Buddhism.