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Thanks, But No Thanks

A Buddhist philanthropist learns to leave her vanity aside and give without the glory.

By Bokara Legendre

Nov 27, 2019

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Humility and Humiliation

How an embarrassing experience at a Zen retreat became a lesson in accepting our mistakes.

By Grace Schireson

Nov 26, 2019

Rivers of Constant Movement

A senior student struggles with the loss of her teacher and change in her spiritual community.

By Sandy Boucher

Winter 2019

Regret: A Love Story

Pure Land Buddhism shows a way to flip the script on failure: falling short is the way we move forward.

By Andrew Cooper

Winter 2019

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Harnessing Horror Through Meditation

A Buddhist practitioner faces his fears of horror movies and roller coasters with the help of his meditation practice.

By Biju Sukumaran

Oct 30, 2019

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A Buddhist Tradition Grows in an Ohio Women’s Prison

Two practitioners became formal Zen students in a ceremony at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, joining an expanding circle of incarcerated Buddhists.

By Karen Jensen

Oct 21, 2019

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David Nichtern Wants to Make You Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

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

Oct 08, 2019

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Circling Emptiness

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

Fall 2019

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Meeting the Friend She Always Knew

The goddess of compassion intervenes in the life of a longtime practitioner when her help is most needed.

By Sandy Boucher

Fall 2019

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By Rena Graham

Dec 06, 2019

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The Mandala Master

For more than two decades, Losang Samten has spread lessons of interdependence in the West through Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.

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Winter 2019

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Pilgrimage is often thought of as a transformative journey to a far away place with trials and tribulations along the way, but this doesn’t always have to be the case. Learn how Himalayan Buddhist ways of relating to sacred spaces can inform a sense of pilgrimage grounded in the routines of our everyday lives.

Lama Elizabeth Monson

Nov 2019

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Personal Reflections

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Thanks, But No Thanks

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Humility and Humiliation

Magazine Personal Reflections

Rivers of Constant Movement

MagazinePersonal Reflections

Regret: A Love Story

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

Harnessing Horror Through Meditation

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

A Buddhist Tradition Grows in an Ohio Women’s Prison

Trike DailyPersonal Reflections

David Nichtern Wants to Make You Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

MagazinePersonal Reflections

Circling Emptiness

MagazinePersonal Reflections

Meeting the Friend She Always Knew