While navigating my Dharmic path, I have had the great fortune to receive profound guidance from Chagdud Khadro, a renowned Vajrayana Buddhist teacher who also
The beginning of the holiday season and the end of the school year means there are kids at home all day. It means dealing with
Imagine a difficult situation that many of us experience: an aging parent is beginning to forget things, to have difficulty speaking, to struggle physically, and
From the top of a mountain we can see far and wide. We can see the land and the sky. Standing at the meeting point
The History Boys (2006), a masterful film adaptation of playwright Alan Bennett’s drama of the same name, has a thoughtful and melancholy ending. The film deploys
Scientific and technical progress has developed exponentially in the last century, enabling unprecedented achievements in numerous fields, from medicine to space travel. Yet sometimes such
While dining at a restaurant a few weeks ago, my daughter Amaya saw a child her own age who appeared to have been born with
My first meditation retreat was in 2004, in Ladakh, northern India, at the far western end of the Himalayas. Our meditation hall was an army
Imagine you could give your child the kind of wise spiritual instruction provided to a young Tibetan lama. The kind of instruction that nurtures a
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)* is a serious neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive weakness and a huge psychological impact on both patients and their carers.
Recently, I was sitting on a train coming back home from Sydney Central and couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between a teenaged girl and
For more than 21 years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has traveled the world teaching about the innermost nature of mind as understood by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
