“Otherwise, not much use,” the Dalai Lama told BBC.

Each week BBC features a half-hour audio program entitled “Heart and Soul” that explores spirituality in different parts of the world. This week’s installment is Japan’s Buddhist temple bells. From BBC: This week’s Heart and Soul captures the physical and symbolic power of these bells, and they are awesome, some weighing more than 30 tons. […]

I recently came across an interview on the BBC website in which  Tibetan-Buddhist nun Lama Zangmo, living in London, speaks about the virtues of having no material possessions: “When you go deeply on a spiritual path,” she says, “your values change. You don’t focus your whole life on having a job so you can make […]