Do Good and Be Well

Too cold to work out? Sure, but you can still do your body and mind plenty of good -- while also making a real difference to others.

It’s Time to Listen

Margaret Wheatley discusses how to heal in the months following the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

Don’t Be So Sure

In a changing world, certainty doesn't give us stability; it just creates more chaos. "Now is the time for far less certainty and far more curiousity."

Hand holding a bowl of tea. Koan.

What did Yan T’ou Whisper? A Commentary on “Te Shan Holds His Bowl”

Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer gives a commentary on "Te Shan Holds His Bowl", a Zen koan.

Something Has to Change: Blacks in American Buddhism

Lawrence Pintak tells the compelling stories of three African-American dharma teachers. He asks them why American Buddhism attracts so few people of color and what can be done about it.

Taking the Time

If we feel we're changing in ways we don't like then we need time to think-about where we are now and how we might start to change things.

Zen’s Radical Conservative: John Daido Loori Roshi

John Daido Loori is an imaginative modernizer yet fierce upholder of the old ways of Zen. John Kain reports from Zen Mountain Monastery.

Sisters

I can't know what it's like to be a woman, or even how exactly to be a dad to girls, but I know something of sisters, and even perhaps of sisterhood.

The Miracle of Downward Dog

Buddhist practitioner Mark Epstein discovers the joys of hatha yoga.

Religion Without God

What does it mean to be a religion without a God? More broadly, what does it mean to live without an exterior savior of any kind?