Hurricanes and wildfires have come and gone, leaving hundreds dead. We’re left facing a dire reality: we live on a warming planet. Homes blown apart. Lives lost. Ecosystems flattened. This is how climate change arrives at our doorstep. With the destruction comes a...

Disturbed But Not Disturbed By Norman Fischer Life is very emotional. It’s a constant flow of emotions, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes hardly noticeable, but there all the time. Strong emotions like grief or fury can knock us entirely out of commission. But even...

In high school, my friends often asked me about the Buddhist take on social justice issues. “What do Buddhists think about abortion?” “How about gay rights?” “Do Buddhists eat meat?” “Are you allowed to own a gun?” Sometimes I had an answer, but for other issues, I...

‘Those who have found the way, practise in solitude, walking alone. But they roam nirvana together.’ Zen master Hsuan Chuen

‘‘‘What is suppressed is expressed.’’ If you push it out of sight in one place, it just pops up somewhere else or in another guise.’ John Aske

‘When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.’ Zen Graffiti

El título de Uji, traducido como “Ser–Tiempo”, contiene en su esencia la totalidad del texto. Desentrañar el significado de esta palabra abre un vasto panorama de prácticas interconectadas. Los dos caracteres u-ji suelen traducirse como arutoki o “por el momento”....

‘Buddha doesn't observe precepts, doesn't do good or evil, isn’t energetic or lazy, Buddha does nothing. Buddha isn’t a Buddha.’ Bodhidharma

Via Sarvodaya.org comes the news that activist Dr. A.T. (Ahangamage Tudor) Ariyaratne, founder of the socially engaged Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement — “Sri Lanka’s most broadly embedded community-based development organization,” dedicated to “the awakening of all” —...

While on a personal retreat, I hiked into Horn Canyon in the east end of Ojai, California. Due to the severe drought, it had been years since water had flowed alongside the trail there, but now I was delighted to cross the creek a few times, jumping from rock to rock....