Start your day with a fresh perspective
Though our lifetimes are fleeting on a cosmic scale, we experience them as long and adventurous. Focus on this and you will be naturally motivated to make the most of life.
How journalist Daisy Hernández finds refuge in her practice, her work, and bringing the two together
Sister Clear Grace Dayananda is driving across the US in a 2003 Chevy van: “I did a lot of research, watched a lot of videos on YouTube, and made a lot of mistakes,” she says.
In an excerpt from her new book, The Lie About the Truck, Sallie Tisdale depicts self-consciousness as the human condition.
20 years after 9/11, teachers who shared practices and perspectives at the time reflect on what their words mean today
Like the Buddha seeing Mara, much conditioning scuffles off, powerless, once it is seen and fully understood. The work is to know it, not to hide from or fight it.
The translator saw himself as a spy sneaking ideas across the mind’s borders
How one writer’s confrontation with emptiness helped to shed and define their identity.
As a writer processes her miscarriage, the Tibetan Buddhist concept of the bardo helps her gather fortitude and insight where there had been misery and victimization.