On Parenting

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting

Cartoon As Path

Jonathan (nine years old) reads to us from his favorite comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes. First panel: young Calvin’s teacher gives him a math problem. Next: Calvin stares at the problem, dumbfounded. Final panel: Calvin, dressed…

By Lama John Makransky

Child walking with parents family practice buddhism

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting

Family Practice

I’d been away on a silent retreat for several weeks. We’d engaged in a Dzogchen preliminary practice of self-inquiry in which one asks, “Who is meditating? Who, what is aware?” By retreat’s end, wondering how my…

By Lama John Makransky

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