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The musician, entrepreneur, and Buddhist teacher discusses his book Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck and uniting our work and spiritual lives.
Interview with David Nichtern by Matthew Abrahams
Recalling his friendships with Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett, a Zen student and writer grapples with a central Buddhist teaching.
By Lawrence Shainberg, Illustration by Barry Blitt
The goddess of compassion intervenes in the life of a longtime practitioner when her help is most needed.
By Sandy Boucher
A new father’s pilgrimage to a sacred Japanese mountain inspires a meditation on awakening, parenthood, and what we pass on.
By Sam Mowe
A Buddhist teacher explains why she came out as transgender in the nineties.
By Caitriona Reed
Insight meditation Peter Doobinin talks about leaving New York City and starting Berlin Dharma.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
How an unusual name and a lifetime of spelling errors helped an author loosen his grip on his ego.
By Leath Tonino
Burying the grief that followed her family's drowning in the Bermuda Triangle didn't work. But using meditation to face it did.
By Sarah Conover
A renowned teacher gives up a traditional life of protection to seek the extreme and transformational conditions of an anonymous mendicant monk.
By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov
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