Personal Reflections Reflections
Reflections
“Honesty is the vehicle of truth. But death needs no vehicle.”
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“Three Legs of the Same Stool”
How journalist Daisy Hernández finds refuge in her practice, her work, and bringing the two together
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Inside the Traveling Nunk’s Mobile Monastery
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.
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The Endless Gaze: Mirrors, Cameras, Binge-Watching and Making a Scene
In an excerpt from her new book, The Lie About the Truck, Sallie Tisdale depicts self-consciousness as the human condition.
September 11, Then & Now
20 years after 9/11, teachers who shared practices and perspectives at the time reflect on what their words mean today
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Naked: Conditioning Uncovered
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 Private Side of Thomas Cleary
The translator saw himself as a spy sneaking ideas across the mind’s borders
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Letting Go to Find Yourself
How one writer’s confrontation with emptiness helped to shed and define their identity.
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Diary from the Bardo
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.
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