


The Most Important Spiritual Advice
How slowing down with time in nature can nurture our heart and practice

Metta’s Hard Stare
A humorous take on looking tough with loving-kindness

When Time is Undervalued
Bringing the wisdom of Buddhist values to modern…

Be Still and Heal: Forbearance on the Path of Awakening
Finding refuge in patience in our often turbulent world

Selfishness in a Time of Crisis
What can we, as Buddhists, do when we witness our own…

Engaging the Six Paramitas to Care for Animals, Part One: Generosity, Discipline, and Patience
Compassion for all life

Spiral Fracture
Kindness and gratitude in the face of suffering

Bodhisattva Quan Am’s Blessings, the Aesthetics of Devotion in a Vietnamese Temple in Maine
Sowing the seeds of the Buddha’s teachings into…

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

Patience is Power
Water falling, drop by drop, will fill even a large pot.Likewise, the wise (one), accumulating good, little by littleBecomes goodness itself. The Dhammapada (Maitreya 1995, 34)

The Bengali Tea Boy
Around the time I first became interested in the Buddha’s path, I was doing a construction internship in the southwest of the United States, living