For years, much of my experience with Buddhism was colored by the persistent belief that Americans are too hard on ourselves and that our most salient quality is that we ignore or violate healthy boundaries in pursuit of our own egoistic goals. I heard many Buddhist...

‘A reasonably controlled lifestyle is necessary for serious practice.’ Trevor Leggett

From Tekchokling Nunnery in Boudhanath, Nepal, comes word today that Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, one of the foremost teachers in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, died on June 22. According to an email about Khenpo Rinpoche’s passing from the Marpa Network,...

‘The tongue which produces careless speech is like an axe used to kill oneself.’ Kusan Sunim

Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small sense of self, and to rest in awareness. In meditation we do this simply by acknowledging the moment-to-moment...

‘When trying to be still by stopping movement, the stillness itself is kept in motion; persisting with any extreme, how can you know the One?‘ Ta-tsu Hui-k’o

En vísperas del cierre de la ciudad de Nueva York por la pandemia, sentí el miedo a lo desconocido que se respiraba en el aire, así que medité con un árbol torcido cuyas ramas serpenteaban de lado a lado, y las revelaciones de esa meditación me ayudaron a sobrellevar...

‘An intuitive moment is not a rational moment; it isn’t a moment based on common sense and habitual ways of looking at things.’ Ajahn Sumedho

Oh, what a wonderful topic to write about: thank you notes for friends! I really revere friendship and feel overflowing gratitude for the existence and experience of it. A form of love that is simple, spirited, supportive, and soothing all at once. Friends are there...