Linda Durnell | Posted 04.24.2012
We can choose to change our thoughts, words, actions and feelings to create the changes that will transform our lives.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche | Posted 04.21.2012
What happens if we allow ourselves to become attuned to the simple transactions of our daily lives? What can we learn from those moments that nearly slip past our awareness?
Steve McSwain | Posted 10.28.2011
The day will come when you look back and see that what appeared as a puzzling jigsaw of unwanted pain and confusion has given way to the beautiful tapestry that is your life.
Peter Baksa | Posted 07.31.2011
In every image that I have ever seen, the Buddha is smiling. Not just ha ha, but grinning from ear to ear. He is in fact laughing. He knows something that we don't.
Noah Levine | Posted 03.27.2012
When I first heard the Buddhist teachings on lovingkindness, compassion and forgiveness, I was incredibly skeptical. I saw those heart qualities as undesirable and perhaps unsafe.
Steve McSwain | Posted 06.04.2011
I abhor your actions and, as a devout follower of Jesus Christ, I am embarrassed and ashamed that you would tarnish the Christian family with actions contrary to Jesus' spirit and teachings.
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.26.2011
The Buddha image is the most exceptional of religious icons. Its aesthetic is unique.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.17.2011
When we get angry or hateful at Limbaugh for being so offensive, all we are doing is the same thing he is -- fanning the flame of hate. This helps no one, especially not us.
Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The Buddha spoke about five ways to protect ourselves and our practice. Here I'll write about he first two of these, and continue with the rest next week.
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011
I first met the author and meditation teacher James Baraz five years ago at a silent Metta ("loving kindness") retreat at the Spirit Rock Meditation C...
Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a saying, "One who protects the dhamma, the truth, will be protected by it." Sometimes this concept of protection is a little difficult for us to understand.
Sharon Salzberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping, and it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011
For us the question becomes, can we find that place in the middle of these extremes, neither fruitlessly clinging to transient experiences, nor working from a place of self-hatred?
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.17.2011
At the moment, Palin is touring the country to promote her book, which has a very large number of words in it, but not all of them are necessarily either true or kind.
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
Brit Hume, while I wouldn't presume to advise you to take up Buddhism, maybe you could try reading some Buddhist authors like Jack Kornfield or Pema Chodron to supplement your scripture.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 05.25.2011
Many people see Twitter as a democratizing tool that will radically change how people share and receive information online. Others see it as the epitome of self-promotion run amok.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.17.2011
Buddha would encourage us to use everything, including Twitter, not to distract ourselves from what is important, but to remember it and to do our work on this earth impeccably.
Molly Hahn | Posted 05.25.2012