Reflections on ethics in confronting student naïveté and abusive teachers

Why American Buddhist ministers wear robes and perform rituals

Buddhist advice for skillfully working with our desires

Confronting the karma of killing as an inescapable part of life

Tending to the natural world, tending to our lives

Bringing Buddhist practice to cultivating the earth and maintaining a rural home

Engaging in the many ways we can bring forth our buddha-nature

Learning to see the beauty of the world through a clearer mind

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences

The importance of accepting the pain inherent in life

Buddhist practice is not inaction or passivity, but rather choosing with wisdom and compassion

Finding peace in our circumstances through letting go

From the office to the farm, the conditions of the material world prove inescapable

Realizing the infinite in sunyata