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In this excerpt from Meditation Saved My Life, a Tibetan lama explains how Chinese prison guards taught him more about compassion than his Buddhist teachers.
By Phakyab Rinpoche, Sofia Stril-Rever
Noelle Oxenhandler reviews Tracy Franz’s My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk’s Wife in Japan.
By Noelle Oxenhandler
When people age with memories more or less intact, remembering can be a dreadful burden, laden with fears and regrets, or a precious refuge to come home to.
By Pamela Gayle White
A meditation on mindfulness of the body brings to light the painful racialized experiences of many practitioners of color—a reality that white communities often fail to take into account.
By Atia Sattar, Illustration by Loveis Wise
While visiting the Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh, India, a pilgrim wonders what she’s missing when she’s capturing the moment.
By Tina Lear
Buddhism reduced to just meditation is a spiritual dead end.
By Lama Jampa Thaye
Zen training talks a lot about death. But one practitioner found that it doesn’t necessarily prepare you to face your own.
By Natalie Goldberg
How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and self-acceptance helped me with my struggle with bulimia.
By Anastasia Selby
Practice means constant failure: a Meditation Month reflection
By Matthew Abrahams
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