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Summer 2025 • Volume 34, Number 4

Daily Dharma

Maybe we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more delusions. Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something unattainable. We always think nirvana is something very different from our own life. But we must really understand that it is right here, right now.

– Maezumi Roshi, “Appreciate Your Life”

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IdeasMagazine | Feature

Forgiveness Is Not Buddhist

Buddhist teachings do not advise asking others to absolve us from our misdeeds. Instead, they outline a path to purification that will change our relationship to reactive patterns.

By Ken McLeod

Winter 2017

painting of a demon, milarepa face fears

TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk

Into the Demon’s Mouth

Like the great Tibetan saint Milarepa, we can learn to face our fears with clarity and kindness.

By Aura Glaser

Spring 2012

Personal Reflections

The Path to Transforming Generational Suffering

How mindfulness can help us cultivate a foundation of peace and persistence

By Brother Pháp Hữu

Oct 07, 2024

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Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

Tara, the female buddha of compassion, manifests as peaceful, fierce, and semi-fierce, or joyful—qualities we can learn to embody in our practice and lives.