If a bull goes straight when the herd is crossing a road, then they will all go straight because he leads the way. The same among people. If the one w...
Waylon Lewis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living
Get thee to an eco meditation cushion, if only for a few minutes each morning before the day's madness ensues, and if you need a jump-start of inspiration or a little training, check out one of these Buddhist teachers.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 10.23.2008 | Living
In the last week we have been witnessing a huge amount of hateful and vicious language and behavior in the election. Despite promising to run a positi...
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living
We are not presuming to know what the Buddha might say to John McCain, any more than what he might say to any of us. But the Buddha did teach very cle...
NY Times | Perry Garfinkel | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living
A BLOCK off Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown -- beyond the well-worn path tourists take past souvenir shops, restaurants and a dive saloon ca...
Sharon Salzberg | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living
When I looked at the cabbage, what I saw was forces of nature coming together in a certain configuration, at a certain time, with tentative form and tentative color, coming together.
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living
Every August from second grade to freshman year of high school, Mom and Dad packed my cedar trunk into the Plymouth Voyager and drove me northeast acr...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
In Buddhism, the notion of balance is central. Over the Bush years, there has been a damaging drift toward absolutism. You're with us or against us, diplomacy is appeasement, tax cuts forever, the axis of evil, and markets always work best (and government, worst).
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living
I've been thinking about spirituality lately (duh), and I've realized that if there is one word that people don't (or won't) associate with spirituali...
Perry Garfinkel | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living
Isn't it - I can't decide whether to say "ironic" or "appropriate" - that modern technology now brings us wisdom that would otherwise have been consid...
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living