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Finding Spirit in the Ordinary
On how to give thanks for everything
On how to give thanks for everything
Shifting your outlook from “please” to “thank you”
The Lotus Sutra is one of the foremost Buddhist texts, but to the uninitiated reader, it can make little or no sense.
Like the oxherding pictures used in Zen, Shin Buddhism’s seven phases of the drowning sailor illustrate the path to enlightenment.
Though this chant to foster gratitude and connection is the main practice of one of Buddhism’s major schools, many are surprisingly unfamiliar with it.
A look at the Asia Society’s show of Kamakura Buddhist sculpture: the first to be mounted in the US in over 30 years.
A lesson in gratitude
The path of imperfection
Rev. Dr. Taitetsu Unno—one of the world’s preeminent scholars of Jodo Shinshu (Shin) Buddhism and a longtime minister in that tradition—passed away on Saturday, December 13. He was 85 years old. Unno’s final moments were spent surrounded by friends and family, including his son Mark, who describes his father’s enduring equanimity and gratitude: To the very […]
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