Alberto Villoldo PhD 4 Ancient Tips For Overcoming Suffering & Depression
by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D.: The Buddha, who had lived a sheltered life of luxury as the young prince Siddhartha, […]
Alan Watts The Way of Waking Up
What does it mean, to awaken? A short movie narrated by Alan Watts. […]
Transcendence or Immanence? Balancing Heaven and Earth
by David Loy: At the heart of Buddhist teachings is a crucial ambiguity that has become increasingly problematic as Buddhism has globalized. […]
Adyashanti A Shift In Perception
Adyashanti: Your version of reality is an illusion. It doesn’t exist outside your head. Enlightenment is just seeing things as they are-all that’s needed is a shift of perception. […]
A Buddhist Monk Told Me The Answer To Life
by Jake & Hannah Eagle: I am in Kyoto, Japan with my wife, Hannah, teaching a personal growth workshop. […]
Buddhist Teacher Jack Kornfield On Gratitude, The Mindful Revolution, And Learning To Embrace Suffering
by Carolyn Gregoire: In some Buddhist traditions, there’s a prayer in which one makes a rather unusual request of the universe: Bring me challenges and obstacles. […]
Roshi Joan Halifax Death And Radical Optimism
by Joan Halifax: Death And Radical Optimism […]
Jack Kornfield Right Attitude
by Jack Kornfield: So one has decided that spiritual practice is worthwhile for some reason. […]
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD: Touched By The Goddess
by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD: Yesterday I was going through some boxes in my garage when I came across an unlabeled box. […]
Don’t Shoot the Second Arrow!
by Susan Bernstein: I recently learned a great question that’s reducing my need to complain or suffer, and I want to share it with you: […]
Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-first Century Civilization
by Daisaku Ikeda: Delivered at Harvard University, September 24, 1993 […]
The Buddha is a Human Being with Deep Understanding
by Thich Nhat Hanh: When you think of the Buddha, you think of the young man who was born in Kapilvastu, who practiced many years in the forest and who went around India to live the [...]
Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness
Matthieu Ricard: What is happiness, and how can we all get some? […]
Adyashanti Spiritual Addiction
by Adyashanti: A spiritual person can become addicted to spiritual highs and miss the experience of Truth. […]
Ken Wilber Toward A Fourth Turning Exploring The Future Of Buddhism
by Ken Wilber: Buddhism has, of all the major religions, always had a very self-reflexive understanding of itself as growing, evolving, unfolding. […]
Thich Nhat Hanh How to Calm Your Mind
by Thich Nhat Hanh: We cannot be really understanding if we do not calm ourselves […]
Jack Kornfield: Right Effort
by Jack Kornfield: The next three steps of the Eightfold Path have to do more with inner work of meditation than outer work of Right Livelihood and Right Speech, and so forth. […]
Oprah Talks to The Dalai Lama
by Oprah: He calls himself “a simple Buddhist monk”—a man who rises at 4 A.M. and spends hours each day in prayer and meditation. […]
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness At Work: The Myth Of Multitasking
by Sharon Salzberg: The following is excerpted from Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace […]
The Path to Altruism – Matthieu Ricard
by Matthieu Ricard: “Cooperation,” the Harvard University biologist Martin Nowak has written, is […]
Thailand’s nuns fight for equality
Women are barred from ordination in Thailand’s Theravada Buddhist sect. After Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni was ordained in Sri Lanka, […]
Learning to Respond, Not React
Tara Brach: When life doesn’t go our way, we often launch into a chain reaction of obsessive thinking, blaming and unpleasant emotions. […]
Love Letter to the Earth, Thich Nhat Hanh
In case you missed it back in 2012, here is the rare and beautiful interview where Thich Nhat Hanh presents his new insights into Mother Earth, […]
Dalai Lama Encourages Buddhist Nuns on the Path
by Rinchen Khando Choegyal: It was a moment that Tibetan Buddhist nuns dream of — to be in the presence of the Dalai Lama […]
Faith
by Sharon Salzberg: Faith is something very personally meaningful to me. […]
Adyashanti Complete Interview
Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes how in the development of human consciousness, there comes a shift from a sense of a separate self toward the experience of unity. […]
Roshi Joan Halifax On Compassion, Women In Buddhism, And Altruism
by Karen Bouris: The founder and abbot of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Roshi Joan Halifax has been a socially active leader in Buddhism for more than 40 years […]
The 10 Very Best Zen Stories
by Myrko Thum: Many teachings from Zen-Buddhism are told in short and delightful zen stories. […]
Thai Women Don Monks’ Robes
By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau: Thai women were among the first women in Asia granted voting rights, in 1932. […]
Faith and Spirituality Writer Karen Armstrong
by Brittany Shoot: Is there a unifying, universal tenet or ritual from each major world religion that you find useful to study or use as part of your practice? […]
Absolute Cooperation with the Inevitable
by Tara Brach: The modern-day mystic and Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello once said: “Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” […]
Preparing to Die
Death is a journey into the unknown, but like any journey it goes better if you’re prepared. […]
Dalai Lama shares his message of caring and compassion
by Sanannah King: Moments before the Dalai Lama took the stage at Emory University in Atlanta, the chattering crowd grew respectfully quiet. […]
Yoga Your Way Young
by Elmear Lynch: What if the Fountain of Youth isn’t a miracle face cream or a new-wave plastic surgery procedure, but a five-step yoga routine developed 2,500 years ago? […]
A Bridge Between Western Science and Eastern Faith
by Kim Severson: Quantum theory tells us that the world is a product of an infinite number of random events. Buddhism teaches us that nothing happens without a cause, trapping the universe in an unending karmic [...]
The Transforming Power of Mindful Prayer
by Tara Brach: Although not always highlighted in the West, prayer and devotion are a living stream in Buddhism. […]
Google seeks out wisdom of zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
by Jo Confino: Thich Nhat Hanh: Global tech companies are connecting to the power of mindfulness and meditation to drive sustainability and happiness […]
Dalai Lama shows he’s a child at heart
MYSORE: On Saturday as the Dalai Lama celebrated his birthday, the child in him came to the fore. […]
Thich Nhat Hanh | Interview by Oprah Winfrey, courtesy of Super Soul Sunday
Thich Nhat Hanh: Super Soul Sunday airs Sundays at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network […]
The Breath of Compassion: Pema Chodron
Pema Chodron: by Tami Simon: When many people are first introduced to tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for generating compassion, they find the technique […]
PAULO COELHO: One should not lose faith. In the end there is justice for all.
by Paulo Coelho: I continue to transcribe extracts that I jotted down between 1982 and 1986 from my conversations with J., my friend and master in the RAM (Regnus Agnus Mundi) tradition. […]
At Home With the Dalai Lama
by Victor Chan: Below, a letter to my daughters that first appeared in the September 2013 issue of Shambhala Sun magazine. […]
Neuroscientists and the Dalai Lama Swap Insights on Meditation
by Christof Koch: An encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the scientific study of meditation. […]
Secularism is respecting all religions, say Dalai Lama and Dada J P Vaswani
Secularism does not favour one god over another, rather manifests as a belief in a supreme power present in all humanity, said spiritual leaders Dalai Lama and Dada J P Vaswani of the Sadhu Vaswani [...]
Spirit Rock at 25: meditation and renovation
by Meredith May: Fresh back from five years meditating in the Buddhist forest monasteries of Burma and Thailand, Jack Kornfield went to Manhattan to meet his sister-in-law. […]