Start your day with a fresh perspective
In an excerpt from Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition, scholar Sarah Shaw recognizes the value and potential pitfalls of secular interpretations of Buddhism.
How unconditional acceptance can lower the walls in our heart and let the light shine through.
A new translation, Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva, offers a fresh look at a passage in Shantideva’s classic text.
The author discusses how reading stories reminds us of the “Previous and Better Selves We Have, Briefly, Been.”
As he reflects on the aging self, writer Douglas Penick comes to appreciate uncertainty and the slipperiness of memory.
On the countercultural icon’s final book
Two mothers discuss Buddhist practice and attachment.
Lama Rod Owens discusses his new book, Love and Rage, and finding the wisdom of anger in charged times.
Two second-generation Shambhala women talk about Emily Temple’s novel, The Lightness, and the way forward for an embattled tradition.