Eliminating Suffering Through Buddhist Practice
Jungto Society
13 March 2025
A Dharma teaching from Ven. Pomnyun Sunim on the path eliminating ignorance through Buddhist practice
Post-Election Conversations: Embodying Curiosity and Empathy, Resisting Polarization
Ratnadevi
22 November 2024
In a potentially polarized world, Ratnadevi offers mindful listening as a bridge between ourselves and others. By tuning into emotions and values, we create space for healing, connection, and constructive action.
Taking and Offering Refuge
Maia Duerr
20 November 2024
In times of growing uncertainty regarding the world around us, Buddhists know that the Dharma offers an unshakeable refuge that can ground us as we work to offer inner and outer refuge to others
Something Is Missing, Because Someone Is Missing
Margaret Meloni, PhD
21 October 2024
Margaret Meloni offers a meditation on the grief journey from loss and mourning to acceptance and equanimity
Of Rainbows and Sea Turtles: Letting Memories Guide and Heal Us
Margaret Meloni, PhD
26 September 2024
Margaret Meloni discusses how we maintain a mindful relationship with our past and our present, with love and loss, and with grief and equanimity
Be Your Own Ally in Times of Loss
Margaret Meloni, PhD
24 May 2024
Magaret Meloni offers a lesson in mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion in times of grief and impermanence
Spring Grief: A Tribute to Gerry Loose
Ratnadevi
22 May 2024
Reflections on the fact and process of loss, and finding beauty in a world so torn by suffering
Dancing around Death: Meeting Denial with Courage and Compassion
Margaret Meloni, PhD
23 April 2024
Learning to approach impermanence with equanimity and acceptance
Matsukaze: Wind in the Pines
Joseph Houseal
13 April 2024
A self-reflective exploration of love and loss, grief and impermanence in Japanese Noh theater
The Living Death: Losing a Relationship with a Person Who Is Still Alive
Margaret Meloni, PhD
25 January 2024
Margaret Meloni offers a meditation on how our Buddhist practice can help foster acceptance in the face of impermanent relationships
Leave Them with Love
Margaret Meloni, PhD
28 December 2023
Margaret Meloni explores the practice of treasuring our relationships and making peace with impermanence
The Pandemic Sutra
Maia Duerr
28 November 2023
BDG columnist Maia Duerr ponders the meaning of the pandemic and the hope for change as we confront our interconnectedness