When my son, Joshua, died in a car accident at the age of eighteen, it felt more traumatic and painful than facing my own death. Although I was a close student of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, I had no conscious understanding that I’d received...

One of the most intense spiritual experiences I’ve ever had was at a loud rock concert in the middle of an amusement park. In 1986, at age eighteen, I went with my sister to see The Smiths one drizzly evening at Canada’s Wonderland, outside of Toronto. Our family had...

It’s eighth-century India. On the vast, steamy Indo-Gangetic Plain sits Nalanda University, a Buddhist center of learning that’s also a monastery with some ten thousand students and two thousand teachers. Among them is a young monk named Shantideva. While other monks...

‘A teaching stripped of depth may become a mere fashion, a temporary adornment rather than a transformative force. While these applications are not without merit, they fall short of the practice’s true purpose: liberation from Dukkha.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘It mostly requires a deliberate effort to identify oneself with the joys and successes of others.’ Ajahn Chah

‘Finding joy in the happiness and success of others, has not received sufficient attention either in expositions of Buddhist ethics, or in the meditative development.’ Ajahn Chah