The Narrow Road to Oku
A look inside the travel journals of the celebrated haiku master Matsuo Basho
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Wrestling with thoughts about her parents’ mortality, a writer runs through her own life cycle at a particularly macabre Thai café.
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A meditation coach reflects on desire, restraint, and respecting agency in spiritual instruction.
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In experimental elegies for his homeland, Samyak Shertok articulates a “ghost language” for grief and loss.
Teaching Tibetan
Franziska Oertle discusses Tibetan language preservation in a changing world.
A New Take on Thangka
New York–based artist Naomi Basu talks Tibetan Buddhism, new gallery showings, and her education under master thangka painter Pema Rinzin.
The Practice of Freedom
Meditation teacher Oneika Mays discusses what she’s learned about love and liberation as the first mindfulness coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility.
Dethinking Thinking
An American Theravada monk takes up a teaching from Dogen on how to question and let go of unhelpful thoughts.
What Should Ten Years of Buddhist Practice Make Possible?
How the object of our practice can become its own obstacle and the tangible fruits of the brahmaviharas
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