Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
All of the Nature to Change
A hike through the woods provides a lesson in impermanence.
Barbara Gates
Barbara Gates is a writer and developmental editor living in Berkeley, California. Author of Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place (Shambhala, 2003) and other publications, she was cofounder and coeditor in chief of Inquiring Mind. She is currently working on a memoir: On the Trail of Birth and Death.
Suffering Is Not Enough: An Early Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh
The wisdom in a 1985 interview with the Vietnamese Zen master rings as true today as it did then.
Found in Translation
Exploring the Day of the Dead, a writer learns to reframe painful past experiences and let go.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Cycles of Motherhood
A practitioner reflects on her mother’s uniquely challenging qualities following a trip to the emergency room.
My Teacher, The Tree
Thai Buddhist monk Ajahn Pasanno and environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill discuss what nature can teach us about love in an interview with Inquiring Mind.
Standing as Equals
A conversation with Rinchen Khando Choegyal, founder of the Tibetan Nuns Project
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