One of our tenants hasn’t paid his rent for more than six months. There has been violence and property damage to his unit. The police have been called. The other tenants have told us they don’t feel safe around him.  He’s one of the residents at The Grove, the...

I entered what sociologists call the sandwich generation—caring for my teenager and my aging parents simultaneously, while tending to all the rest of it: my marriage, a demanding job, a large extended family, friendships, dogs, my home, not to mention my own needs and...

My friend Omar grew up surfing here in South Orange County. He’d sworn off surfboards long ago in favor of bodysurfing, a purer form of wave-riding, to his mind—nothing between you and the sea. I wanted to learn, and he took pity on this Toledo transplant. After...

Right effort is the most underappreciated factor on the Buddha’s path to enlightenment. I’ve heard countless Buddhist teachers mention it and then hurry on to the more familiar and photogenic practices—mindfulness, concentration, maybe a few reverent mentions of...

After my first child was born, I fell into an exhausted sleep only to have a nightmare: I was on the deck of a ship holding my new baby. The sea was heaving so hard that the ship pitched forward and almost rolled into the water, teeming with sharks. Terrified of...

In 2014, at the age of thirty-one, I was told that I might soon have serious difficulty walking. For months, my body had been sending me signals I did not understand. I experienced numbness, vertigo, falls, loss of coordination, difficulty reading, disorientation,...

'All the dusts are entirely yours; all the dharmas are not someone else's. Follow the current and paddle along, naturally unobstructed!' Hongzhi Zhengjue

‘Supernatural powers and wonder-making works — fetching water and the gathering of wood.’ Layman P'ang