How to Enjoy Life Twice as Much, Part 1: Michel de Montaigne and Rick Hanson on Life’s Natural Pleasures
Seth Shugar
15 August 2019
Savoring the present, living with joy
The Buddhist Retirement Plan
Vanessa Sasson
29 September 2017
A financial adviser once told me that most people only really begin saving for retirement in their mid-forties. It would be better to start earlier,
Buddhistdoor View: How to Be Happily Unhappy
Buddhistdoor Global
25 November 2016
The History Boys (2006), a masterful film adaptation of playwright Alan Bennett’s drama of the same name, has a thoughtful and melancholy ending. The film deploys
Healing the Teenager Within
Sister Ocean
5 September 2014
During the summer here at Plum Village we host a series of family retreats. For the first time this year I participated in the Teen
Kintsugi: Fix a Broken Heart with Gold!
Shveitta Sethi Sharma
25 November 2013
I recently read that kintsugi is a Japanese art form where broken pottery is fixed with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold. Once the broken pottery is fixed with gold, it actually looks
Short Stories of Discovering One’s Inner Joy
Pastoral voices
16 April 2010
Where is my key?One night a man was crawling around on his hands and knees to look for something underneath a lamppost. When his friends