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Awakening My Heart: On Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh
Andrea Miller attends a transformational six-day retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh.
Start With a Flower: Alice Walker & Sharon Salzberg in Conversation
A conversation about loving-kindness between Sharon Salzberg and Alice Walker.
Watch 4 funny, poignant teachings from Ajahn Brahm
In this video series from Buddhadharma, Ajahn Brahm offers four short, insightful teachings.
What Are the Three Types of Suffering?
Suffering is the central problem that Buddhism addresses, and recognizing our suffering is the first step to its solution.
Commentary: Responding to Trump’s Separation from the World
Buddhist economist Clair Brown shares inspiration — and facts — for the way forward after the US drops out of the Paris Climate Accord.
The Five Mindfulness Trainings
Thich Nhat Hanh's Five Mindfulness Trainings are are based on the Buddha's five precepts and translated for modern times. Their nature is universal.
Topsy-Turvy World
The strength of mind that comes from meditation, says Norman Fischer, can help us end the denial that keeps a world of problems spinning.
Buddhism & Ancestral Remembrance Ceremony to be held in London
The Amitabha Buddhist Society will hold its 2017 Buddhism & Ancestral Remembrance Ceremony, in London, UK from June 9-11.
Ethics, Service, and a Meaningful Life
In the opening editorial of our July 2017 issue, our editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod discusses living an ethical life of service on the Buddhist path.
“Dear White People” creator Justin Simien talks Buddhism, finding empathy for trolls
One element of Justin Simien’s identity isn’t obvious in his new Netflix hit: Buddhism. But it’s there.