Abiding in the Asking
Poet Jane Hirshfield discusses poetry’s power to lower the barricades between ourselves and other beings.
Personal Reflections
Personal Reflections Working with Pain
From Fighting to Flourishing
Mindfulness teacher Vidyamala Burch shares how her relationship with her spinal injury shifted when she dropped the fantasy of finding a cure and prioritized healing instead.
Personal Reflections Zen Buddhism
At the Beginning You Hold the Structure, Then the Structure Holds You
How the Zen practices of form and structure hold the key to being with uncomfortable states of mind
Personal Reflections Illness & Care
Chaplaincy and Not Knowing
Having worked as a registered nurse for decades, Cheryl Barnes-Neff says chaplaincy taught her that there’s more to patient care than having all the right answers.
Personal Reflections Illness & Care
Inviting Everything into the Room
A palliative care physician reflects on how his Buddhist practice has transformed his ability to accompany patients through illness and death.
Saying Yes to Life
Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life In Tibetan Buddhism, “bardo” is a between-state. The passage from death to rebirth is a bardo, as well as the journey from birth to death. The conversations in “Between-States” explore…
Personal Reflections Embodiment
Some Things Are Felt Through The Body
I have always been what can be described as ‘sensitive’. This is shorthand for, literally, some days I can’t get out of bed because the Amazon is burning, or I have to recover each time I…
‘Know Hatred Completely’
A Soto Zen priest reckons with the koan of racism and comes to view Buddhism as a practice of engaged liberation.
A Few Days of Silence
Cultivating peace, wisdom, and kindness during a meditation retreat for young adults
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