Meat Puppets
We don’t have to be so bound by these meat puppets that we drag around.
Kate Wheeler
Kate Wheeler is an award-winning writer, essayist, and travel journalist. She teaches and practices in Theravada and Tibetan Nyingma Buddhist lineages and is a residential retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Acts That Purify Our Existence: Dana, Sila, and Bhavana
A celebrated Theravada monk and meditation teacher explains the importance of the ethical dimension of Buddhist practice.
This May Be Heaven Or This May Be Hell
Reinventing oneself in Bangkok
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Cave With a View
On a monthlong retreat in a Himalayan meditation cave, Kate Wheeler learns more from companionship than solitude.
This is Your Brain on Buddhism
Kate Wheeler finds new inspiration at the Dalai Lama's thirteenth Mind and Life Dialogue.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Pretty in Pink
When bald was beautiful: Kate Wheeler remembers her temporary ordination in Burma.
‘Pay Attention for Goodness’ Sake by Sylvia Boorstein
Pay Attention, for Goodness’ SakePracticing the Perfections of the Heart: The Buddhist Path of KindnessSylvia BoorsteinNew York: Ballantine Books, 2002282 pp.; $24.95 (cloth) “A rose is a rose is a rose.” This well-known poem by Gertrude…
I Give You My Life
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The Bond Between Women
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