Reforming education to develop a student’s interior being

A new paradigm for peace

On the delight of generosity, practiced with mindfulness and unconditional love

Accepting impermanence and treasuring the now

Consoling those who have lost a loved one and memorializing those who have passed

Raymond Lam reflects on Modi's Buddhist diplomacy

A new children's film and its ideas about no-self

Alan Kwan discusses the Contemplation Sutra

A good deal of contemporary Buddhist literature exists that confronts unhealthy and deluded ideas of romantic and sexual love. Today’s popular media and advertising certainly peddles a distorted

A new perspective on finding meaning in retirement

Reading another’s journal is like peering through a window into a person’s world. I recently read The Intimate Merton (1999)—the collected journals of Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk, writer

The world of dew Is the world of dew And yet, and yet . . .   — Issa (1763–1828)   All sentient beings fear death. Many of us have wondered what it might be like to extend

Wisdom and Faith: Two Sides of the Same Coin   For years, I have been searching for the meaning of life, the absolute truth, the ultimate reality . . . However, although I studied in a Catholic

Two Kinds of Nature As a Pure Land, the nature of the Land of Bliss is pure in every sense of the word. As declared by Master Tanluan, purity is its overall nature, because th