Buddhadharma offers us a tried-and-true compass to navigate a changing world, one that is shifting even more rapidly and in often heartbreaking ways. Through this column, I share ways that Buddhist teachings and practices have supported my own journey, as well as reflect on how the Dharma gives us a path to understand and respond to collective challenges including climate emergency, social breakdown, and racial and economic injustice.
Dharma Compass is published monthly.
Mahapajapati deserves to be remembered as the founder of the great women’s community that remains to this day, and as a woman who stood up for gender equity, beginning work that is ongoing
Thich Nhat Hanh’s unique ability to reach people where they are and his emphasis on Buddhism as an always-engaged practice live on as two among many of his greatest accomplishments
A meditation on the virtue of generosity in our lives
Acknowledging the complexity of the current war, columnist Maia Duerr invites us to look back at our own minds as we think about and discuss this and similar situations
BDG columnist Maia Duerr ponders the meaning of the pandemic and the hope for change as we confront our interconnectedness
A guide to understanding and deepening our connection to the earth and its long history of indigenous people with humility and reverence
Engaging with the ways that we see sameness and difference in issues of Gender in our Buddhist communities
Introducing contributor Maia Duerr and her new column Dharma Compass, with an exploration of her background in Buddhism and Zen
