Right Speech Reconsidered
Right Speech, also called Wise Speech or Virtuous Speech, gives rise to peace and happiness in oneself and others.
Beth Roth
Beth Roth is a nurse practitioner who teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction and vipassana meditation in Connecticut. She has published descriptive and research articles about meditation in various professional journals. She also writes about parenting and adoption issues for Adoptive Families Magazine and Nuestros Ninos Bonitos. She can be contacted at bethroth@snet.net or through her website.
Family Dharma: The Sacred and the Ordinary
As the teachings of the Buddha take root in the West, they are inevitably influenced by their encounter with our existing religions. Similarly, as we who were raised in Christian and Jewish traditions engage in a…
Family Dharma: Leaning into Suffering
Greet pain and suffering with an open heart
Family Dharma: The Buffet Retreat
A practitioner establishes a family meditation practice with her children through silent meals, walking meditation, and sitting practice.
Family Dharma: A Bedtime Ritual
The Buddha taught that the primary purpose of a human life is to cultivate love, and that this love would create the conditions for peace and happiness in ourselves and in the world. In a famous…
Family Dharma: Taking Refuge (On the Wings of Angels)
While on silent vipassana retreat many years ago, I was introduced to the Buddhist tradition of Taking Refuge. Along with about one hundred other yogis (retreatants), I repeated after our teachers these phrases: “I take refuge…
Family Dharma: The Elephant’s Footprint
The Buddha taught that awareness of our death helps us live a happier and more meaningful life, and enables us to prepare for a conscious and peaceful dying experience. In our culture, purposefully contemplating one’s death,…
Family Dharma: An Eyelash in the Palm of Your Hand
Choosing our actions wisely
Family Dharma: Karma and the Tonka Truck
The Buddha called the law of karma “the light of the world” because it illuminates how and why things happen in our lives. The force of karma is a fundamental principle underlying all Buddhist teachings, and…
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