Between Two Mountains
Add to Wisdom Collection: Add to Wisdom Collection is not public John Daido Loori Roshi walks the difficult path between fear of living and fear of dying. John Daido Loori Roshi For all the horror and...
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Add to Wisdom Collection: don't add to collection is not public Poet Gening Lentine gleans higher meaning from life's little instructions Genine Lentine POOL HALLDHARMA TALKAimyour sticknotthe cue...
View ArticleA Meaningful Life
A meaningful life must also answer the question, “What have I brought to the world?” If I can look at a day and see that virtue, happiness, truth, and living an altruistic life are prominent elements,...
View ArticleHeartfelt Advice
When we are deeply involved in the practice of the Buddha dharma, the sages advise that we practice a common sense of balance by learning to structure our mundane activities and dharma practice in ways...
View ArticleThe View From Above
Things simply happen—we do our rituals, we travel about, we bear children, live among them, and die. We can’t change these facts, but if we cultivate awareness that everyone, everywhere has similar...
View ArticleWarrior Mind
Fear diminishes me, makes me no bigger than that part of me which fears. Fearful, I am too small to contain thought, too small to hold real compassion. Protecting myself, I will hurt others.author:...
View ArticleLiving a Life of Practice
We need to revive appreciation for the traditional model of a practitioner who lives a life of simplicity and humility, sincerity and endeavor, kindness and compassion. We must choose teachers with...
View ArticleThe Refuge of Silence
Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its...
View ArticleAccessing Joy
Whether we are paying careful attention to wholesome states when they arise, reflecting on gratitude, or feeling the delight of living with integrity (which the Buddha called 'the bliss of...
View ArticleTalking with the Other Side
Add to Wisdom Collection: don't add to collection is not public An interview with Krista TippettIn an age of polarized public discourse, there aren’t many voices out there that move beyond the war of...
View ArticleOn Silence
Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its...
View ArticleTommy's Corner
Add to Wisdom Collection: don't add to collection is not public Tommy Tatami Tommy, Can You Hear Me:Twenty- one Questions on the Nature of Self1. If I have open-head surgery and my brains are replaced...
View ArticleShopping the Dharma
We must become aware of how the consumer mentality functions in us and in our spiritual communities and institutions. We need to revive appreciation for the traditional model of a practitioner who...
View ArticleThe Pleasure of Foolishness
Being the fool is not the same as acting the fool: you can’t decide to be playful, or foolish, for an hour a day, as if it were yet another task to add to your campaign of self-improvement. It’s rather...
View ArticleGlobal View
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View ArticleThe Space Between
Minds emerge from process and interaction, not substance. In a sense, we inhabit the spaces between things. We subsist in emptiness. A beautiful, liberating thought and nothing to be afraid of. The...
View ArticleConsumer Mentality
When we turn to spirituality, we may think that we’re leaving the corruption of the world behind. But our old ways of thinking do not disappear; they follow us, coloring the way we approach spiritual...
View ArticleWatch Fear
Fear demands to be felt, and it can be felt most readily in the body, as a powerful sensation. The experience may be uncomfortable, but as you watch fear manifest in the body, the truth of the Buddha's...
View ArticleRobe of Liberation
Vast is the robe of liberation. A formless field of benefaction. What a generous, comforting image—a robe as limitless as the sky, and at the same time a sense of being covered, held, embraced,...
View ArticleLiberation through Insight
The whole point of Buddha-dharma is that liberation comes not by believing in the right set of tenets or of dogmatic assertions, or even necessarily by behaving in the right way. It’s insight, it’s...
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