Beginner’s Mind: Three Dogs
Loupgarou Whitesides
25 April 2025
A college student in the United States ponders the implications of karma, duhkha, and samsara in the lives of three furry bodhisattvas-to-be
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.
Remorse Is Holding You Back
Margaret Meloni, PhD
17 April 2025
Margaret Meloni considers a Buddhist perspective on regret and remorse, and cultivating equanimity through skillful actions
Only This, Wisdom Mind
Asa Hershoff
2 April 2025
Asa Hershoff reflects on the tantric view of pure awareness
Book Review: Eihei Dogen Zenji’s The Roots of Goodness
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
27 March 2025
Nachaya Campbell-Allen reviews a new translation of Eihei Dogen Zenji’s treatise on goodness
Beginner’s Mind: Brutally Frugal to Reluctantly Indulgent: How the US Is Changing My Spending Habits
VySa Nguyen
1 March 2025
A college student in the United States offers some reflections on frugality and self-indulgence in the consumerist culture of US society.
Book Review: Storehouse of Treasures: Recovering the Riches of Chan and Zen
Raymond Lam
17 January 2025
Nelson Foster’s ambitious collection of essays masterfully examines a multitude of vast subjects with insight and depth
Karma: It Isn’t (Always) What You Did
Asa Hershoff
13 January 2025
Asa Hershoff offers a short treatise on causes and conditions and the fruition of karma
Buddhist Epistemology
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
11 December 2024
Anam Thubten Rinpoche investigates the foundations of Buddhist thought and practice
Beginner’s Mind: Transformation of an Everyday Object to an Amulet
Daniel Zong
23 October 2024
A US college student studying Buddhist Materiality considers the meanings and implications of amulets and Buddhist imagery
Buddha-nature
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
9 October 2024
Anam Thubten Rinpoche examines the concept of buddha-nature and how the path to recognizing our fundamental nature is the key to liberation
Embracing Suffering as Part of Your Journey
Margaret Meloni, PhD
22 August 2024
Margaret Meloni investigates the importance of courage and self-compassion as aspects of our practice in the face of suffering on the Noble Eightfold Path