‘Spring-Watching Pavilion’ and Other Poems
Hồ Xuân Hương’s poetry resists the social hierarchies of 18th-century Vietnam through her subtle cleverness and hidden meanings.
Literature
Going Up?
Sublime wisdom in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist
And He Sat
Dr. Seuss on the sublime virtue of meditation
Down These Mean Streets
Sublime diligence in Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective novel The Big Sleep
Macbeth Flunks the Marshmallow Test
Shakespeare’s insight into sublime patience—and the tragic lack thereof
Clear Light, High Society
Sublime ethics in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Coming Unscrooged
Sublime generosity in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
The Novel Zen and Gone Follows Troubled Teens Encountering Dharma
Author Emily France discusses how her new book makes Buddhist teachings accessible for young adults.
Looking for Liberation
Explore a futuristic world where meditation is forbidden and comes at a price in this excerpt from Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein.
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