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Flowers and Moths

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 27 August 2025

BDG’s North America Correspondent Sensei Alex Kakuyo discusses the importance of understanding karma in our everyday lives

Buddhist Practice and a Pile of Mulch

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 23 July 2025

In life we will find weeds in both the world around us and our mind. While effort to remove them is an option, so is acceptance and faith in the bigger picture, writes BDG North America Correspondent Sensei Alex Kakuyo

Home made chicken coop with grass around it

Loving the Work

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 25 June 2025

Sensei Alex Kakuyo teaches us that in our Buddhist practice, as in garden work, the goal must be the practice itself

A Chicken Coop for Enlightenment

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 27 May 2025

A reflection on how imperfection reminds us that our past work and its flaws still shelters and teaches us

Woman in a greenhouse with a pot and soil in her hands

A Terrible Time for Gardening

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 23 April 2025

Sensei Alex Kakuyo shares how gardening under imperfect conditions becomes a practice in resilience, echoing Buddhist teachings on impermanence and the Eight Winds.

Dead Cat Dharma

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 26 March 2025

Sensei Alex Kakuyo reflects on the at times harsh realities of life and the power of Buddhist practice as a tool for moving through them.

A winter sunset with snow and trees in the foreground

Embrace the Cold

Sensei Alex Kakuyo 26 February 2025

Understanding the Buddha’s teachings on suffering is a bit like understanding our need to dress for the weather, says BDG North America correspondent Sensei Alex Kakuyo