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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Trying to Speak: A Personal History of Stage Fright
David Guy discovers a method for confronting his deepest fears.
The View From Above
Caught in the stress of everyday life, we lose perspective. Manjusura writes of a philosophy that can change our lives.
The Wheel
Sometime in the early eighties, I spent a few weeks in Hawaii, living in a cabin near the crater of the volcano called Kiluaea. Trees, flowers, and birds were all about. The daylight had a kind…
Shopping the Dharma
How do we reconcile our roles as consumers and Buddhist practitioners?
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
One Fat Buddha
Under the vast robe of liberation, a practitioner confronts her body.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Between Two Mountains
John Daido Loori Roshi walks the difficult path between fear of living and fear of dying.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Cyberdharma and the Net’s Vast Reach
John House, managing editor of Yahoo Internet Life, recounts his odyssey from an isolated buckwheat zafu to the vast interconnected reaches of dharma online.
On Silence
Those who are fond of retreats—writers, ecstatics, parents with young children—often comment on the silence such time away allows. Silence becomes something present, almost palpable. The task shifts from keeping the world at a safe decibel…
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