Book Review—The Light that Shines Through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life
Raymond Lam
7 June 2018
A summation of a Japanese Buddhist…
No Easy Answers: Gesshin Claire Greenwood on Zen Life, Capitalism, and Feminism
Justin Whitaker
23 May 2018
Thoughts on the future of Buddhism in the West
Mindfulness Practice in Japanese Stroll Gardens
Meher McArthur
17 April 2018
Exquisite Buddhist expressions in natural beauty
Eido Shimano Roshi, Zen Pioneer in America, Dies at 85
Justin Whitaker
1 March 2018
Rinzai Zen Buddhist teacher passed away in…
Augmented Reality Brings Kyoto’s Oldest Zen Temple into the Future
Craig C Lewis
26 February 2018
Digital experience brings a new dimension to an…
Modern Mantras for Daily Life
Sister Ocean
19 December 2017
In the Plum Village community, we learn to apply the art of mindful living in daily life. My teacher, the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, (Thay)
Josh Korda: Where Buddhism, Life, and Psychology Meet
Justin Whitaker
30 November 2017
Walking the Dharma in in modern America
The Mind in Language: Jane Hirshfield’s The Beauty
Caitlin Dwyer
22 November 2017
I found myselfsuddenly voluminous,three-dimensioned,a many-roofed building in moonlight. So writes Jane Hirshfield in her collection The Beauty (Knopf 2015). She is describing a startling moment
One Face of Liberation: Buddhist Feminism in Japan
Gereon Kopf
30 October 2017
The Zen-inspired activism of Hiratsuka Raichō
A Walk with Thay
Sze Chai
11 October 2017
After two years of being unable to visit the Plum Village monastic community in southwest France for the Summer Opening Retreat, conditions were finally right
Zen with a Brush: A Zen Approach to Creativity
Tiffani Gyatso
1 September 2017
The teacher gives me four simple words to carry in my heart while allowing my brush to manifest before any thoughts emerge: “Just be present,
The Gift of Zazen: Angie Boissevain
Caitlin Dwyer
18 August 2017
It was 1959. A young housewife was driving across America, from the open fields of the Midwest to the rugged Pacific Coast. Angie Boissevain and