Sallie Tisdale

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Alone on the Bodhisattva Path

Palliative care nurse and writer Sallie Tisdale reflects on the compassionate vow to save all beings in a time of physical isolation.

By Sallie Tisdale

Apr 06, 2020

photo of a dog sitting in tall grass for story on buddhism and pet euthanasia

A Life in Her Hands

Without clear moral guidelines, the author struggles with her pet’s failing health.

By Sallie Tisdale

Spring 2020

Travel Guide to the End of Life

An interview with Sallie Tisdale, death and dying educator

By Sallie Tisdale

Summer 2018

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

The Sutra of Maggots and Blowflies

How do we extend compassion to flies and other creatures who do not look like us?

By Sallie Tisdale

May 23, 2016

On Dignity

What is “self-worth” in a system that denies the permanence of any self?

By Sallie Tisdale, Photography by Dorothea Lange

Summer 2016

Self-Care for Future Corpses

“Namaste. You’re dead.” (Plus: 7 habits of highly effective Buddhists.)

By Sallie Tisdale

Winter 2015

Neeta Madahar, “Sustenance 104.” Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York.

As If There Is Nothing to Lose

How giving comes from gratitude.

By Sallie Tisdale

Spring 2010

Washing Out Emptiness

In our own impermanent bodies, we face our deepest fears and aversions. Drawing on Dogen’s writings and her personal experience as a nurse, Sallie Tisdale challenges us not to look away, but to practice in this most intimate realm.

By Sallie Tisdale

Fall 2007

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Beloved Community

What can a Zen priest learn from a fundamentalist theologian? A Buddhist community takes interfaith dialogue beyond common ground with their evangelical Christian neighbors.

By Sallie Tisdale

Fall 2006

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Pamela Weiss, author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism, shares stories of Buddhist women who illuminate how feminine energy can support people in their practice. These often overlooked figures exemplify qualities cultivated on the Buddhist path and provide an important counterbalance to the historically patriarchal tradition.

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Nov 2020

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Sallie Tisdale

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Alone on the Bodhisattva Path

Magazine Personal Reflections

A Life in Her Hands

Magazine Body & Mind

Travel Guide to the End of Life

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

The Sutra of Maggots and Blowflies

Magazine

On Dignity

Magazine

Self-Care for Future Corpses

Magazine Personal Reflections

As If There Is Nothing to Lose

Magazine Body & Mind

Washing Out Emptiness

Magazine

Beloved Community