Procrastination, Determination, and Compassion
Sister Ocean
7 October 2016
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
On Ignorance of the Buddha’s Power and Compassion
Alan Kwan
15 September 2016
Master Tanluan, an eminent Pure Land patriarch from the 6th century CE, wrote the Commentary on the Treatise of Rebirth. He utilized and integrated many profound concepts
Buddhistdoor View: Ambition and Recognition—Moral Questions About Secular Aspirations
Buddhistdoor Global
19 August 2016
“Getting ahead,” “racing to the front,” or “rising to the top.” The very language of success in our industrialized societies implies normative values of competition
Buddhistdoor View: The Morality of Lies and Falsehoods
Buddhistdoor Global
12 August 2016
Some weeks ago Buddhistdoor published a report about Hogewey Care Centre, a Dutch care home for people with dementia that in 2009 built an entire
Buddhistdoor View: Reconciling Nationalism and Buddhism
Buddhistdoor Global
5 August 2016
Recent public statements by senior politicians and prominent monks in Myanmar suggest that the country’s mainstream monastic sangha appears to be winning its public relations
The Gift of Sight, the Gift of Dhamma
Shuyin
29 July 2016
It’s 7am on a Saturday and already about 200 people have gathered at Myantaung Monastery in Pantanaw, about a 2-1/2 hour drive from Myanmar’s capital
Reflections from a Mother on the Path
Summer Adams
17 June 2016
In order to cultivate impartial compassion on the Buddhist path, we contemplate again and again that at some point in time, all beings have been
Buddhistdoor View: Letting Go of Extremism: The Middle Way
Buddhistdoor Global
27 November 2015
It appears that all the wrong lessons have been learned by Western governments and by the mainstream media from the recent tragedies in Beirut, Paris,
Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for our Earth – The Buddha’s Life and Message through Feminine Eyes – Book Review
Caitlin Dwyer
16 October 2015
A few chapters into the newly published Time to Stand Up, I joined the Sierra Club, one of America’s largest and oldest environmental groups. About halfway
When Good Intentions Are Directed by Wrong View
Ty Phillips
19 June 2015
When we inadvertently hurt someone, in order to justify that our intentions were pure we often tell ourselves that we didn’t do anything wrong and
A Buddhist Perspective on Economics and the Alleviation of Poverty
BD Dipananda
30 January 2015
Economics plays a significant role in the lives of the majority of ordinary people. A number of teachings of the Buddha that relate to material
Buddhistdoor View: Unattached Involvement
Buddhistdoor Global
24 October 2014
The demonstrations in Hong Kong continue to drag on. Not long after they started, reports began to cover the involvement of Christian leaders in student