Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Price of Practice
In pursuit of the dharma, a young Buddhist faces questions of sex, money, and power.
Personal Reflections
Meeting the Great Unraveling
How a near-death experience provided one teacher with a much-needed lesson on the power of resiliency and communal support
Leaning into Change and Trusting the World
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Katherine May about the gift of “winter” periods and the transformative power of attention.
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Buddhist
Understanding and responding to the latest college-student abduction by ICE
My Time in Robes
A former monastic reflects on their time as a fully ordained bhikkhu and why they eventually made the decision to return to lay life.
The Way of the Rails
Life as a train ride across the country
They Didn’t Teach This Stuff in the ’80s . . .
What Buddhist teachings on compassion can teach us about child-rearing and emotional coregulation
Appreciating Life and Creating a Life Worth Appreciating
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Bianca Bosker about how art helps us live more expansively and brings us closer together.
Leaving Home
A Zen priest on the history and present-day practice of going forth and attaining the Way
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