‘The word 'self' denotes the same thing which the word 'Buddha' denotes.’ Manjushri

From Variety comes news that a new film inspired by the lives of the sainted eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist figures Jetsun Milarepa and Marpa Lotsawa will be coming soon (though no official date seems to have been announced yet). Titled Milarepa and written and...

‘Let go of the sorrow of disgrace and the joy of success.’ Zen master Hsuan Chuen

I first encountered the five remembrances when I was a chaplaincy student at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies. Diana Lion, one of the teachers, handed us an altar card with five statements from the Upajjhatthana Sutta. Here they are in their blunt simplicity and...

Last week, while I was eating lunch with a friend, he brought up a subject many of us are talking about these days: we’re nearing the end of our lives and wondering what’s next. His brother-in-law had just lost his wife to pancreatic cancer; she died just weeks after...

  Going to a retreat or program is a wonderful way to deepen our meditation practice. But how do we stay connected with these waking-up practices when we go home to the myriad projects, emails, responsibilities, and distractions waiting for us? This is a question that...