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We Are All This Luminous Mind: The Possibility and Importance of Awakening

A Zen view of what awakening is and isn’t, with personal stories from contemporary practitioners

By Dosho Port

Jan 29, 2022

The Unbinding

Finding inspiration in the myth, magic, and moment of clear seeing in the story of the Buddha’s enlightenment

By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Jan 22, 2022

White Rabbit

A chance animal sighting leads to a debate on practice and awakening

By Taigen Dan Leighton

Nov 29, 2021

The Seven Factors of Awakening Explained

Teachers Christina Feldman and Jaya Rudgard explain why we follow the path, the “creative tension” involved, and how to start cultivating the seven qualities that lead to awakening

By Christina Feldman and Jaya Rudgard

Aug 16, 2021

In Defense of “Enlightenment”

“Awakening” has become the preferred English term for the Buddha’s attainment. But has something gotten lost in translation?

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi in conversation with Matthew Abrahams

Summer 2021

Fishing for Enlightenment

Soul offers a surprising lesson about Buddhist awakening.

By Pamela D. Winfield

Feb 03, 2021

Awakening Together

Enlightenment: it’s not just for monastics.

By Mindy Newman and Kaia Fischer

Spring 2021

After Awakening

Faith, practice, and enlightenment in Zen master Dogen’s Genjokoan

Adapted from a talk by Roshi Robert Althouse

Winter 2020

Buddha statue being defaced by Twitter birds

Unmasking the Guru

Our new digital world has made it impossible to believe in infallible teachers. What comes next is up to us.

Interview with Bernhard Pörksen by Ursula Richard

Summer 2019

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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen

Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen by Jeff Goldberg

Jul 01, 2022

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The Buddhist Traveler in Boston

New England’s metropolis offers many attractions for Buddhist visitors.

By Sarah Fleming

Summer 2022

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You Can’t Be Yourself By Yourself: Overcoming Structural Selfishness

In this Dharma Talk, Malcolm Martin proposes the term "structural selfishness" to discuss the ways that a fixed idea of self hinders our practice, while offering insight on how to embrace the complexity of interdependence.

Malcolm Martin

Jun 2022

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