Commitment and Freedom – A Paradox Unfolding in Changing Times
Ratnadevi
22 October 2024
Ratnadevi reflects on Buddhist retreats’ unique ways of teaching us that commitment can lead to freedom
Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing: Incidents on a Building Site
Ratnadevi
13 August 2020
Living beyond language and ideas of one another
Garchen Rinpoche Leads Vakrakilaya Retreat in Moscow
Lyudmila Klasanova
15 August 2018
Some 500 disciples join retreat; 300 take refuge
Retreating into the World: the Ultimate Spiritual Practice
Tilly Campbell-Allen
30 July 2018
Questions on the value of Buddhist retreats
Family Matters: Taking Turns Parenting in Retreat
Summer Adams
3 March 2017
During the months of January and February (culminating with Losar, the Tibetan New Year), the Buddhist center where we live hosts a series of teaching
Why Meditate?
Gereon Kopf
27 January 2017
Whenever I teach Japanese Buddhism, whether in the Americas, Europe, or East Asia, I frequently run into the same assumption among students that Buddhists, for
Loving your Weeds: An Interview with Peggy Rowe Ward
Caitlin Dwyer
22 January 2016
“We get away with stuff sometimes, being American crazy laypeople,” says Peggy Rowe Ward, and then she starts to chuckle. It turns into a deep,