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The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge updates the bodhisattva ideal for an age of ecological concerns.
The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge updates the bodhisattva ideal for an age of ecological concerns.
Zen priest Norman Fischer explains how the absurdity of the bodhisattva ideal demonstrates a much needed way of reimagining the world.
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Prominent writer and social critic Rebecca Solnit takes on the whole American mess in Call Them by Their True Names.
Arousing the thought of enlightenment is not just to make a determination to enlighten all beings; it is the determination to motivate all beings to motivate all beings, on and on.
From aspiration to insight, the practice of bodhicitta leads to a natural embodiment of wisdom and compassion.
Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism means coming face-to-face with the suffering of all sentient beings. It’s not fun.
We need more bodhisattvas in politics, writes a Buddhist practitioner who serves in New Hampshire’s House of Representatives.
A long-term inmate has taken the Buddhist set of ethical guidelines against the often violent setting of prison life
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