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Buddhadharma Book Reviews April 2013: From the Editor’s Desk
In this installment of From the Editor's Desk, Review Editor Michael Sheehy looks at some new Buddhist books.
From The Under 35 Project: “Could We Be So Brave?”
Calling all young dharma practitioners! writes Jessica Bizub. "The world needs our genuine, open hearts. Could I be so brave?"
From The Under 35 Project: “The Case for Kindness”
There's another perspective of kindness that is so common it often goes unnoticed: a simple sense of being of the same kind.
Video: Experience ten minutes of an eight-week “Retreat”
By Canadian filmmaker David Cherniack, a new documentary film follows thirty-five Westerners as they attempt an eight-week, silent retreat.
Rapper/producer Born I Music shares a favorite dharma-song
Born I Music answers: Can you tell us about another musician's song, one that, for you, really captures something about Buddhist practice?
From The Under 35 Project: “The Space of Emptiness”
The gift a flash of emptiness can give, writes Leslie Gossett, is an opening to the world.
Buddha Would Probably Like Restorative Justice
A guest post by Lorenn Walker, public health educator and longtime meditator, on the compassion of restorative justice.
Buddhist tattoos: Not always a hit, especially below the belt
Rod Meade Sperry questions if getting a Buddhism-inspired tattoo is just another gesture of spiritual materialism, or disrespect.
How does loneliness happen if indeed we are all one being? — New from The Under 35 Project
Samuel Gentoku McCree on the contrast between the experience of loneliness and the felt reality of interdependence.
Why Bernie Glassman keeps going back to Auschwitz
Every year since 1994, Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peacemakers have traveled to Auschwitz-Birkenau for a Bearing Witness Retreat.