Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Magic & Mystery of Aging
Old age as preparation for perfect awakening
Aging
Beginning with the Buddha's earliest insights, the four noble truths—where the Buddha recognized the inevitability of old age, illness, and death—aging has been a key part of Buddhist wisdom. Explore teachings and personal reflections on aging and related Buddhist topics like impermanence. Go deeper with the Tricycle Online Course Aging as a Spiritual Practice.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
All of the Nature to Change
A hike through the woods provides a lesson in impermanence.
How Death Gives Meaning to Our Lives
In her new book, Alive Until You’re Dead, Susan Moon helps us confront our fears around death and shows us why we should be grateful for our own mortality.
Aging Is Reality
Although I studied Buddhism as a young man, it wasn’t until I reached the later years of my life that I truly understood the Buddha’s first encounters with old age, sickness, and death.
The Divine Messenger
As he reflects on the aging self, writer Douglas Penick comes to appreciate uncertainty and the slipperiness of memory.
Abandoning the Grandmother
Ubasute, the mythical Japanese practice of leaving an older relative to die on a mountain, speaks to society’s troubling attitudes toward aging.
Living with Bears
We can never really prepare ourselves for the reality of suffering. But we can understand our fear of suffering.
Magazine | Buddha Buzz, Openings
Aging Mindfully
Enso Village, a new project by the San Francisco Zen Center, wants to explore the process of growing old.
Travelers
A short story
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