Personal Reflections Animals & Pets
Lessons from a (Mostly) Good Dog: #5: Dance
You can make your life a work of art—which is what it already was—only now, you no longer feel so separate from it.
Personal Reflections
Personal Reflections Environment
How Buddhist Practice Helped Create My First Garden
Getting my hands dirty provided a new type of refuge.
Personal Reflections Illness & Care
“I Own This Body. I Own This Disability.”
A practitioner learns to accept a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and find peace with himself.
Personal Reflections How We Live
Fruit Fly Dharma
A practitioner learns to welcome the unwelcome.
Personal Reflections Reflections
Why Buddhist Poet Ocean Vuong Practices a Death Meditation
“Honesty is the vehicle of truth. But death needs no vehicle.”
Personal Reflections Relationships
How to Break Free from the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Catherine Burns, artistic director at The Moth, a nonprofit dedicated to the art of storytelling, has helped hundreds of people craft their stories. In a recent episode of Life As It Is, she shares what she…
Personal Reflections Buddhist Chaplaincy
Meet Dan Troyak, Australia’s First Full-Time Buddhist Prison Chaplain
Not so long ago, he thought that organized religion “wasn’t for him.”
Personal Reflections Animals & Pets
Lessons from a Mostly Good Dog: #4: Every Day Is a New Day
What we gain from encountering life with the wide-open eyes of a child, or of a dog.
Practicing Dana, Sila, and Bhavana as I Transition
It is the greatest love letter to myself. It just doesn’t have words.
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