When people ask me about meditation, they often say, “Rinpoche, I want to meditate, but my emotions get in the way.” I always tell them: emotions are not obstacles to meditation. They are the very path. The Buddha himself discovered this. As a prince, he had...

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~Maya Angelou I used to believe that healing and personal transformation required a lot of effort—writing page after page in a journal or getting up at the crack of...

‘Through the cultivation of wisdom, we move beyond the limitations of the conceptual mind and touch the true nature of reality. We see that in emptiness, there is no separation between self and other, between wisdom and compassion.’ Everyday Buddhism

A talk by Ajahn Sumedho on Chronic Pain, Ego and Liberation.

More than 250 Buddhist nuns from around the globe will receive bhikshuni ordination in Thimphu, Bhutan, from November 15–19. The ordination will be presided over by His Holiness the Je Khenpo, spiritual head of Bhutan’s largest Buddhist school, the Drugpa Kagyu. Since...