Family

How to Stay Mindful When Your Preschooler Isn’t

A mindfulness teacher and social worker offers step-by-step advice to the parent of a defiant child.

By Ayman Mukerji Househam

Apr 18, 2019

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Confronting Family Dynamics During the Holidays

Maybe it’s time to realize that surrendering, or letting go, is very much part of our tradition.

By Lauren Krauze

Nov 18, 2017

Buddhism lessons for Beginners; mahayana/vajrayana practice

Trike Daily Buddhism for Beginners

Right Speech Reconsidered

Right Speech, also called Wise Speech or Virtuous Speech, gives rise to peace and happiness in oneself and others.

By Beth Roth

Oct 13, 2017

photo of a candle for story about the sacred and the ordinary

Family Dharma: The Sacred and the Ordinary

As the teachings of the Buddha take root in the West, they are inevitably influenced by their encounter with our existing religions. Similarly, as we who were raised in Christian and Jewish traditions engage.

By Beth Roth

Feb 18, 2009

Baby crying while held in parent's lap; family dharma

Trike Daily

Family Dharma: Leaning into Suffering

Greet pain and suffering with an open heart

By Beth Roth

Nov 14, 2008

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Family Dharma: The Buffet Retreat

When my children Emilio and Claudia were eight and four, I took them to the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts for our first Family Retreat. My husband, who could not get the vacation time.

By Beth Roth

Jul 13, 2008

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Family Dharma: A Bedtime Ritual

The Buddha taught that the primary purpose of a human life is to cultivate love, and that this love would create the conditions for peace and happiness in ourselves and in the world. In.

By Beth Roth

Jun 18, 2008

baby angel statue against colorful sky for story on taking refuge

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Family Dharma: Taking Refuge (On the Wings of Angels)

While on silent vipassana retreat many years ago, I was introduced to the Buddhist tradition of Taking Refuge. Along with about one hundred other yogis (retreatants), I repeated after our teachers these phrases: “I.

By Beth Roth

May 15, 2008

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Family Dharma: The Elephant’s Footprint

The Buddha taught that awareness of our death helps us live a happier and more meaningful life, and enables us to prepare for a conscious and peaceful dying experience. In our culture, purposefully contemplating.

By Beth Roth

Nov 12, 2007

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Daily wisdom, teachings & critique

Society & Environment

A White Rose for Myanmar

Buddhists in Myanmar are pushing back against the country’s nationalist monastics and trying to shift public opinion on the Rohingya crisis.

By Matthew Gindin

Dec 09, 2019

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The Buddhist Review

Arts & Culture

The Mandala Master

For more than two decades, Losang Samten has spread lessons of interdependence in the West through Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.

Interview with Losang Samten by Anne Doran and Frank Olinsky

Winter 2019

Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

Meditation & Practice

Pilgrimage Unbound

Pilgrimage is often thought of as a transformative journey to a far away place with trials and tribulations along the way, but this doesn’t always have to be the case. Learn how Himalayan Buddhist ways of relating to sacred spaces can inform a sense of pilgrimage grounded in the routines of our everyday lives.

Lama Elizabeth Monson

Nov 2019

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