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...

“Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.” ~Dalai Lama It happened again. I got up after being awake all night, wondering where I’d gone for the past nine hours. I remember laying my head on the pillow,...

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