Spirit Rock

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Dalits Convert to Buddhism After Rape of Dalit Woman

Over 200 members of India’s Dalit community converted to Buddhism after the brutal rape of a young Dalit woman, Sri Lankan monks oppose an amendment giving the president more power, and the Rubin Museum of Art…

By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen

Oct 24, 2020

Ideas Sangha

Asian Buddhists in Western Contexts

After 16 years, a sangha for Asians in the diaspora (virtually) returns to Spirit Rock.

By Atia Sattar

Jun 09, 2020

participants at a black buddhists conference at spirit rock

Magazine | Buddha Buzz, Openings

United in Ancestry & Dharma

This fall, several hundred Buddhist teachers and practitioners gathered for what organizers called a “transformational” coming together of Buddhist teachers and practitioners of Black African descent.

By The Editors

Spring 2020

Meditation Interviews

Finding Freedom Right Here, Right Now

Jack Kornfield’s latest book, No Time Like the Present, invites readers to take on life’s challenges.

Interview with Jack Kornfield by Marie Scarles

Oct 04, 2017

Personal Reflections Death & Dying

Radicalizing Dharma Dreams

What one practitioner learned when she sat outside of San Quentin during Tookie Williams's execution.

By Jasmine Syedullah

Jul 17, 2016

Meditation Month 2016 with Spring Washam

Meditation Meditation Month

Meditation Month Guided Meditation: Week 4

Working with difficult emotions

By The Editors

Mar 21, 2016

Meditation Working with Pain

Trying Not to Itch

A nightmarish retreat ends with a lesson in compassion toward oneself—and a doctor's appointment.

By Shin Yu Pai

Feb 20, 2015

Less religion, more practice

The Los Angeles Times reports that Jack Kornfield is in Los Angeles this weekend to give a talk on CG Jung’s journals at the Armand Hammer Museum and to lead a three-hour meditation retreat at InsightLA.…

By Tricycle

May 29, 2010

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Love as the Expression of Emptiness

Joseph Goldstein describes the benefits and means of letting go of the mind’s habits of attachment and delusion.

By Joseph Goldstein

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Two unwelcome visitors test a practitioner’s bodhicitta

By Kent Jarratt

Spring 2023

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Skillful Approaches to Anger

Led by meditation teacher Thanissaro Bhikkhu, this dharma talk discusses how to use the Buddha’s teaching on the three fabrications (sankhara)—bodily, verbal, and mental—to break down anger and replace it with a perspective that’s more conducive…

By Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Mar 2023

Spirit Rock

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Dalits Convert to Buddhism After Rape of Dalit Woman

Asian Buddhists in Western Contexts

United in Ancestry & Dharma

Finding Freedom Right Here, Right Now

Radicalizing Dharma Dreams

Meditation Month Guided Meditation: Week 4

Trying Not to Itch

Less religion, more practice

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