The New Year Is Now
Sister Ocean
30 December 2016
The turning of the year is a natural time to pause and reflect on our lives, be it for the lunar or the Gregorian calendar.
Buddhistdoor View: Renewing the Joy of Encountering the Other This Festive Season
Buddhistdoor Global
23 December 2016
By now, many of us will have seen the familiar Christmas images in advertisements, on billboards, and behind the glass windows of shops. The scenes
Exploring Engaged Buddhism with Professor Christopher Queen
Shuyin
16 December 2016
This column “Dharma Project of the Month,” which started in January 2016, was intended primarily to showcase the many efforts of Buddhists—both monastics and laypeople—to
The View from the Top
Sister Ocean
2 December 2016
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
Buddhistdoor View: How to Be Happily Unhappy
Buddhistdoor Global
25 November 2016
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
Buddhistdoor View: The Dharma’s Place in the Global Climate Change Crisis
Buddhistdoor Global
4 November 2016
The Earth recently reached a grim milestone. On 24 October, the World Meteorological Organization reported in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that a strong El Niño weather
Buddhistdoor View: Balancing “Family” Love with Love for All Beings
Buddhistdoor Global
9 September 2016
The Buddha’s approach to human relationships has not always been universally admired. Perhaps his most socially contentious deed was his abandonment of his family and
Are You Sure?
Sister Ocean
9 September 2016
Sacca, or truthfulness, is the seventh of the ten paramis, or perfections. We usually think of truthfulness in relation to speech, and this is the basis for
Intimacy, Humility, and Stillness: The Perfection of Wisdom
Sister Ocean
17 June 2016
“To study the way of enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is
Taking Refuge: Kaira Jewel Lingo
Caitlin Dwyer
13 May 2016
“Since I was 14, I’ve been looking for community,” says Kaira Jewel Lingo. A former Zen Buddhist nun, Lingo is now a lay teacher living
Driving at Night
Sister Ocean
26 February 2016
The American novelist E. L. Doctorow once wrote that writing is “like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but
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,