The Light Is Always There
A Tibetan Bon practice for finding refuge within
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Buddhism is not a philosophy, science, psychotherapy, or culture. It is a religion.
How Does One Become a Buddhist?
Refuge [ref-yooj]–noun1. shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.2. anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape. In the beginning of the Week 3 talk of their…
Rinzai Zen Zuiganji Temple Offered As Refuge for Tsunami Victims
“At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening.” -Hakuin Ekaku, the great Zen master revered for revitalizing the Rinzai Zen tradition in Japan. The Zuiganji temple in Matsushima is a very important and historically significant…
Find Refuge in Your Own Life
Buddhist practice is not about forcing ourselves to be natural. It is about being ourselves. When we take the vows of refuge, we are also pledging to find the refuge that exists within our own lives.…
Family Dharma: Taking Refuge (On the Wings of Angels)
While on silent vipassana retreat many years ago, I was introduced to the Buddhist tradition of Taking Refuge. Along with about one hundred other yogis (retreatants), I repeated after our teachers these phrases: “I take refuge…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting
The Dharma of Motherhood
There have been moments in my life when I’ve felt that I found Buddhism mostly so that my daughter, Maud, now fourteen, could grow up around a dharma practitioner. It’s never been a problem, trying to…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Dharma 101
Dharma 101 is a sampling of the questions that commonly arise in the course of practice. In some cases, Buddhist teachers themselves identified the questions they most frequently hear from students. To those, we brought experiences…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Etymology: The Three Jewels
BUDDHA. From the Sanskrit root budh, literally “to wake, wake up, be awake.” Sanskrit was the elite language of the Aryan tribes whomigrated to South Asia sometime in the second millennium B.C.E. Various forms of this…
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