The Trump era is here. The past few weeks have seen the most controversial man to ever sit in the White House send the world
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
