I am generally not a big fan of the holiday season. Busy streets, crowded stores, mass consumption. I often wonder in all the frenetic shopping, how much true authentic meaning is occurring.
Peter Clothier | Posted 12.23.2009 | Books
Documentary photographer Alan Brigish's Breathing in the Buddha is "a photographic exploration of Buddhist life in Indochina." The photographs are absolutely gorgeous.
Chade-Meng Tan | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living
There are two components to spiritual practice, Wisdom and Compassion, and associating with people helps us grow Compassion. You probably cannot live a holy life without associating with people.
Jim Watkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
I've gotten a greater appreciation of how pain--the non-life threatening, localized, physical kind of pain that something like a back spasm causes--can be gateway into the world of moment-to-moment awareness.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
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.
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
Happiness grows from a state of mind -- a perspective about life and your engagement with it, and the actions you take to support your happiness.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
The greatest area of split and misunderstanding, which I discover among my friends and other writers and teachers, is the split between the longing of the spirit and material desire.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
One of the greatest potholes today to people living in a relaxing condition in their day-to-day life, is the sense of wanting to compare ourselves to historical figures and "spiritual heros" from the past.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
Just putting the names Ted Kennedy, Michael Jackson, and Buddha in the same title might seem like quite a tossed salad. In a way, it's true. And, ye...
Anne Naylor | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
"...keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." - Rumi On Monday, I struck the bottom of my c...
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Can we step out of our identities that are constantly looking for ways to justify themselves and to put down the other, and open to a deeper presence and wisdom?
Dean Sluyter | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
Of all the words I've heard in the past few days, the ones that spoke most deeply to me were these aboard the returning Amtrak train to Seattle: "Is there a doctor on board?" Believe me, I was invested in the answer.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 08.23.2009 | Entertainment
Everybody dies. Why, from a spiritual point of view, are celebrity deaths such an extra big deal?
James Shaheen | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Buddhism is perhaps even more diverse than Christianity. In fact, the differences among schools can be so vast that some scholars consider them different religions.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 06.19.2009 | Style
But cool as an outer pose, as an attitude you can cop, is dead. When the truly cool people show up in your life, you won't recognize them -- they'll be too cool for that.
Noah Levine | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
(con't from Part I) He sought out all of the spiritual masters of his time. He studied with several great Hindu masters and learned all of the practi...
Waylon Lewis | Posted 04.24.2009 | Living
When our news is filled with the karmic results of our "Greed is Good!" ways (AIG, Merril Lynch, Madoff and Ponzi schemes), I personally find it helpful to turn back to my Buddhist tradition.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living
What's with Bill O'Reilly? He does not seem to know what he is saying! Ed was at a Dalai Lama talk in London when the Dalai Lama said, "People say t...
Tara Stiles | Posted 02.24.2009 | Living
We're always thinking, of our health, finances, family, friends, environment, politics, and so on. We think of ways to improve, earn more, get ahead ...
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
There is a story of a Buddhist monk who meditated for many years on the quality of patience. He was immersed in everything to do with patience. One da...
Michael Sigman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living
Economic greed and fear are two sides of the same coin. When things start getting better, will the preoccupation with money also abate? Or will fear simply be replaced by another cycle of greed?
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living
If a bull goes straight when the herd is crossing a road, then they will all go straight because he leads the way. The same among people. If the one w...
Waylon Lewis | Posted 01.06.2009 | Living
Get thee to an eco meditation cushion, if only for a few minutes each morning before the day's madness ensues, and if you need a jump-start of inspiration or a little training, check out one of these Buddhist teachers.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living
In the last week we have been witnessing a huge amount of hateful and vicious language and behavior in the election. Despite promising to run a positi...
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living