“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” ~Ernest Hemingway My grandmother had just died. My sister and I had come from the room where her body still lay, and we were standing in the elevator in silence when the doors slid...

Grief has a way of living inside the body. For Anjali Shastri, that reality hit all at once on August 6, 2021. It had been exactly ten years since she lost her sixteen year old son. She felt low and had no motivation to work out that morning. But she pushed herself to...

'In one instant, as it is, is an infinite number of kalpas. An infinite number of kalpas are at the same time this one instant. If you see into this fact, The True Self which is seeing has been seen into.' Zen master Mumon

‘The idea of śūnyatā — emptiness — challenges our conventional ways of thinking. It teaches that all things are empty of inherent, independent existence, but this does not mean they are non-existent.’ Everyday Buddhism

'Patch-robed monks roam the world constantly emptying and expanding their minds.' Hongzhi Zhengjue