“True healing is not a straight line. It is a spiral. You come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” I used to believe healing would be obvious. Like a movie montage of breakthroughs… laughter through tears, epiphanies in therapy, and early...

If you are a self-identified Buddhist in the U.S. or Canada who’s employed, volunteering, or training as a chaplain — in healthcare, higher education, prisons, the military, or elsewhere—you’re invited to take part in an important new research project. The survey,...

The ten prohibitory precepts—not to kill, not to steal, and so forth—don’t seem like anything special, they are quite ordinary and familiar to almost everyone. It is also well-known that they are pretty difficult to observe! They are quite simple, but quite difficult...

‘How can a dependent origination have a first and a last?’ Arya Nagarjuna

Becoming a Buddhist priest was as much a surprise to me as it was for everyone who knew me. I grew up as a Shin Buddhist, taught elementary school, became a criminal defense lawyer, married a Catholic, and raised three sons attending a neighborhood Catholic church. My...

“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don’t know what will happen the next moment.” ~Tibetan proverb Some days it feels like a fog I can’t shake—this underlying fear that something painful or uncertain is just around the corner. I try to be responsible. I try to...