Since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his plan to dismantle USAID and imposed a 90-day freeze on nearly all foreign aid, US-funded assistance efforts worldwide have largely come to a halt. The effects of this will be extensive and felt globally. Among those...

‘Q: What is mind? How can I put my mind at peace? A: You must neither postulate a mind, nor try to compel a state of peace. That is what is called peace. The Treatise on No-Mind.‘ Zen Master Niutou

Where I come from there are six months of icy, gray winter. There are sea chanteys and the introspective wail of bagpipes. And there is fish-and-chips—salty with a splash of vinegar. In contrast, where my husband, Adán, comes from there are magenta bougainvilleas,...

Evolution has rigged all of us with a negativity bias—a survival-driven habit to scan for what’s wrong and fixate on it. In contemporary society, a pervasive target is our own sense of unworthiness. We habitually fixate on how we’re falling short—in our relationships,...

‘The real function of zazen is not to rest the mind but to establish a base or foundation for it.’ Rindo Fujimoto Roshi

Gyalo Thondup, the second-eldest brother of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, has died at age 97 in his home at Kalimpong, Northern India. He served not only as an advisor to His Holiness, but as the Tibetan government-in-exile’s Prime Minister in 1991 and...