Starting on 14 October, the community of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto will sit
Learning that home is a non-place we carry inside us
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
The first challenge I encountered during the first year of my monastic training as a postulant was overcoming the discomfort from the clothes we wore.
Venerable Nyanaponika in The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest, begins: “Unshakable deliverance of the mind is the highest goal in the Buddha’s doctrine. Here, deliverance
Many people have a romantic notion of what it must be like to be a Dharma heir. It reminds me of a Chan story about
Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) was an Italian scholar-adventurer who supervised archeological digs in Iran, Persepolis, and the Himalayas.
I recently encountered the term “rust-out,” which, I was told, is the opposite of a burnout. It’s what happens when we stop challenging ourselves and opt for
“The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”
The city of Kamakura in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture is home to one of the most poetic and paradoxical works of Buddhist sculpture. The statue is
Kunze Chimed and her contribution to the traditions…
Inter-religious dialogue with the Order of Discalced…
