
Ideas

A closer look at the first irreversible step on the path to enlightenment

Guidelines for Entering, Abiding, and Departing Long Meditation Retreats and Sesshins
A Zen priest offers helpful suggestions for seamlessly transitioning between daily life and spiritual sojourns.

Tapping into Our Basic Goodness
How meditation can strengthen our innate capacities for compassion and wisdom

Revisiting ‘The Questions of Milinda’
Scholar Maria Heim discusses how treating Buddhist texts as literature can enhance our perception and hone our attention.

3 Lessons from the Japanese Art of Kintsugi
Christiana Figueres on using the pottery practice to relate to a broken world

Using Compassion for Institutional and Social Change
How to cultivate love for people we oppose

Finding Belonging in the Body
Dharma teacher Sebene Selassie discusses why we are divided from ourselves and each other—and how we can find belonging even in the midst of conflict and contradiction.

Words as Windows
Reading, writing, and the Zen paradox

A New Buddhist Canon
Translation doesn’t merely preserve traditions; it creates them.

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