The Wisdom of Uncertainty
The dharma's true home is neither here nor there.
Kurt Spellmeyer
Kurt Spellmeyer is a Zen priest who directs the Cold Mountain Sangha in New Jersey and a Tricycle contributing editor. He teaches English at Rutgers University and is the author, most recently, of Buddha at the Apocalypse: Awakening from a Culture of Destruction.
Globalism 3.0
The secret to world harmony isn’t oneness. It’s multiplicity.
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Dialogue Across Difference
In a time of discordance and distrust, especially among religious communities, a Muslim activist and a Buddhist priest come together to discuss and resist the nativism that has surfaced all over the globe.
Is the Dharma Democratic?
The Buddha's radical inclusivity suggests it is.
Now What Do We Do?
Buddhist history to consider on Inauguration Day
Buddhism and the Market
How a Buddhist understanding of mutual debt can free us from the pressures of building and growing wealth
After the Future
Rediscovering the meaning of rebirth
The Zen Master Is Present
While others busied themselves with no-self, Hakuin asked what a Buddhist self might look like.
Dharma Talks
Meditating With Emptiness
In this Dharma Talk, Kurt Spellmeyer—a Zen priest and a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey—discusses the importance of emptiness in Zen Buddhism.
Waking Up by Breaking Down Barriers
Meditation can be painful. Especially if it’s practiced for long hours in a Zen retreat. But that’s not why Rinzai Zen teacher Genki Roshi once described meditation to his student Kurt Spellmeyer as “dying on the cushion.” In this series, Spellmeyer, now…
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