“Anxiety isn’t you. It’s something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.” ~James Clear Years ago, I had a panic attack while driving across a bridge, and I thought I might die that day. Suddenly my heart started pounding. My breath became...

‘The precepts are a shortcut for entering the Buddha gate.’ Bassui Tokushō

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” ~Søren Kierkegaard I didn’t lose her all at once. I lost myself first—slowly, quietly, in the way that only happens when someone you trust makes you doubt everything you think and feel. She was magnetic when...

In this loud and often overstimulating world, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed at times. This can be triggered by things around us or by what we are experiencing within. When this happens to me, I feel irritable, anxious, or on edge, and often find myself wanting to...

‘There’s probably nothing more beautiful in this world than people relying on and trusting one another.’ Beopjeong Sunim

“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