How to Let Things Go
A selection of six pieces of life advice from a Zen Buddhist monk
Relationships
Listening to Our Ancestors
Three practices for listening mindfully—to ourselves and others
Bitter Melon Soup
How to offer difficult feedback in ways that are grounded in love and true understanding
Personal Reflections Relationships
Letting in All the Ancestors
Reckoning with her return to life outside the monastery, a Zen student finds solace in calling upon her ancestors.
Personal Reflections Relationships
Is an Aspiring Bodhisattva Allowed to Have Boundaries?
When boundless compassion meets healthy limitations
Seeing the Silliness of Me
Theravada teacher Ajahn Sundara on the importance of not taking yourself so seriously.
Personal Reflections Relationships
On Differentiating ‘Noble Silence’ from ‘The Silent Treatment’
A Buddhist couples therapist on using silence skillfully in relationships
Beauty Saved My Life
How compiling a book on a 19th-century Buddhist nun gave a chronically ill writer the strength to fight to the death
Finding the Juicy and Joyful in Celibacy
In an excerpt from their latest book, Healing Our Way Home, three Black Buddhist teachers talk about intimacy, sexuality, and healing.
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