Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Will I Get More Time This Time?
A Buddhist teacher and cancer survivor is hospitalized during the pandemic.
Sandy Boucher
Sandy Boucher has conducted Buddhist classes, workshops, and retreats in California and the Pacific Northwest for over 35 years. She is the author of nine books, including She Appears! Encounters with Kwan Yin Goddess of Compassion.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Rivers of Constant Movement
A senior student struggles with the loss of her teacher and change in her spiritual community.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Meeting the Friend She Always Knew
The goddess of compassion intervenes in the life of a longtime practitioner when her help is most needed.
How Rinzai Zen Came to America
Ruth Fuller Everett was the first Western woman to experience sudden enlightenment; Sokei-an Sasaki was the first Zen teacher to live and lecture in the United States. Zen Odyssey tells the story of their partnership, which…
Personal Reflections Reflections
We are in Training to Be Nobody Special
A writer and Buddhist teacher reflects on the lessons she’s learned about not insisting on her specialness.
My Short Brilliant Zen Career
A Theravada practitioner is temporarily dazzled by the aesthetics of a Zen sesshin.
Sweating in the Desert
Work-practice with Ruth Denison
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Essay
Jungle Beast
On a tour of the wilderness where the Buddha once wandered, SANDY BOUCHER learns that there’s more to the forest than peaceful contemplation.
Buddhist Women Meet in Mongolia
SANDY BOUCHER attends this year’s Sakyadita Conference
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