


On the Instability of So-called Reality
Practicing the foundations of mindfulness

Everything You Need to Know About Flying Monks . . .
Brushes with the mysterious Dharma

Ugandan Buddhist Monk Offers Mindfulness Meditation as an Antidote for Violent Crime in Jamaica
Monk seeks to bring mindfulness to inner-city…

A Small and Precious Miracle
My first meditation retreat was in 2004, in Ladakh, northern India, at the far western end of the Himalayas. Our meditation hall was an army

Cognitive Ease and Mantra Recitation
Recently, I was sitting on a train coming back home from Sydney Central and couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between a teenaged girl and

Procrastination, Determination, and Compassion
I’ve known people who go to a single meditation retreat and when they return home they start sitting an hour in the morning and an

Approaching Chan, Part 2: The Two Streams of Chan Contemplative Practices
When Chan Buddhist practices were first transmitted to China, they were the same as those practiced in India. Over time, however, the contemplative practices (禪觀)

Approaching Chan, Part 1
This article is the first in a series of three that seeks to explain some of the subtleties of Chan Buddhism for newcomers to the

Indiana Buddhist Temple: Spreading the Light of Compassion across America’s Heartland
For Indiana Buddhist Temple member Bruce Allen, the Buddhist path began with a water lily start: “I came to know Indiana Buddhist Temple in a

Buddhistdoor View—Being With Smartphones and Being With Ourselves
It’s a peculiar time we live in when people need to be motivated by a competition to simply do nothing. An event in Seoul called

Know the Ideal, Accept the Actual
The New Year is a natural time for reflection and the setting of resolutions. This is a valuable process, for it’s all too easy to