A man has only a hundred dollars in the bank and just got turned down for a job he thought he’d nailed. When his partner asks about it, he forces a smile: “It’s okay. Something better will come along.” On the surface, it sounds hopeful, but the words are a mask. He...

Last year, two major events occurred in my life: the first anniversary of my father’s fatal overdose and my tenth year of sobriety. That said, sobriety is like Zen—a process that starts over and over with each breath. Suzuki Roshi once said, “The most important thing...

Geshe YongDong Losar, a Tibetan lama who emigrated to Canada in his late twenties, decided that he wanted to learn how to play golf. Enter Jesse Moussa, professional golfer and private golf teacher. As the two men spent time on the golf course together, they came to...

Just before dawn, when the world is still and dark, we renew our devotion to compassion as our hearts turn toward light. A single candle flickers on the shrine, the air alive with presence and prayerful intent. In this threshold between night and sunrise, between...

Why meditate, and what will we learn from doing it? Is it just about reducing stress or finding a little more ease in our lives? Or is it something more? In the opening lines of the Dhammapada, which is a well-known collection of verses of the Buddha’s teachings, the...

Andrea Miller: You are an executive producer of the new documentary Wisdom of Happiness. As you define it, what is happiness?  Richard Gere: We all want to be happy, but we have different definitions of what that is. That’s why we have these conflicts in the world: We...