How to Choose a Sangha
A writer and Zen teacher on discerning healthy Buddhist communities from cultish enterprises
Julie Seido Nelson
Julie Seido Nelson is a Greater Boston Zen Center member and a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She writes widely on economics, ethics, feminism, and ecology. Learn more at julieanelson.com.
Sick and Useless Zen
A foggy brain and chronic fatigue opened up my practice and showed me a new kind of full and vital life.
Opinion: Are Corporations Anti-Dharma?
A corporate lawyer and an economist explain why certainty about the greed of corporations should make a Buddhist nervous.
Dharma Talks
Taking Vows, Attaining Nothing: A Zen Perspective on Personal and Social Projects
In this series, Julie Nelson, an economics professor and a dharma teacher in the Boundless Way Zen school, will talk about how the concept of nonattainment can transform the way we work with our desires, intentions,…
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