Reaching understanding on the path to wisdom

Enabling sustainable entrepreneurship, promoting ethical values

In February this year, Time magazine included a feature called “The Mindful Revolution” as its cover story, illustrated with an image of a girl meditating peacefully. With the great efforts to researc

“Fluttering Merrily” by Otagaki Rengetsu, Japan, 1840s–50s, calligraphy and painting in ink on paper mounted as a hanging scroll; Private Collection, Switzerland             

Rick was a hardscrabble kid from Indiana who came to Zen Hospice Project’s (ZHP) four-patient guest house in downtown San Francisco with AIDS. He was not yet 20. I’d been volunteering

In this series, I share my personal reflections on my journey to Bangladesh from 25 May–4 June. I have written this as a diary.   25 May   The white clouds billow in the strong su

“I named the shop after my father, in a manner of speaking,” reflects Cynthia Hui. The founder and current Marketing Manager of Han Li (漢礼) watches me proudly as I admire the assorted yet remarkably u

  Buddhism entered into the Western zeitgeist a long time ago.  People speak of trying to “be Zen” or maintaining “good karma” to various degrees of seriousness, with many only having

Our first Chinese New Year in Vancouver after an absence of many years proved to be both educational and amusing.  Educational because we had to relearn the “local” Chinese customs here, whi

Amsterdam's red light district and apparent openness to brownies, liberal sex and hemp are a self-parody. They are a conscious joke (albeit an economically beneficial one) by the city’s tourism