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How disappointed are we in old age when joints just don’t move as easily as they used to? How about when the body refuses to obey us when we are ill or bedridden? How often have we vented, &ldqu

I remember a story that a sister (let's call her Sister G) told me the year before I ordained. It was raining, so a number of women were sleeping in our small meditation hall. As Sister G walked by, s

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

In the mid-1990s, I spent a year as a volunteer at Zen Hospice Project’s (ZHP) Guest House in downtown San Francisco, helping the four resident patients one day a week. During that time, I learn

It was 3 July 2014. I was in transit at Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi when a stormy weather announcement was made for the Himalayan region of Ladakh, and my flight to Leh, the capital, was cancel

The name “Eldrick Tont Woods” probably doesn’t ring a bell in anyone’s mind, even though it’s the given name of a modern-day legend. Add in a few white balls, a lush