The power of compassion in an unkind world

The walls we build around us

Facing down injustice

On the question of Buddhist detachment

On the growing need for mutual respect and harmony

US presidential race highlights extent of political decay

Murder is abhorrent. Whatever one’s opinion of the Charlie Hebdo satirists and their line of work, the lethal violence against them was appalling. Yet, while Buddhism respects the protection of life a

This series of questions and answers was recorded on 07/04/2013 for Thay's third dharma talk at his Schools and Educators' retreat in Thailand, April 2013. Here he answered questions from people who s

This is a modified version of an article I wrote for MouthLondon, a London youth, media and journalism magazine. The cosmopolitanism of London is one of the many reasons why I’m an Anglophile, b

Much of the Western world, particularly Europe and the UK, has been engulfed in the News of the World scandal, in which journalists of the 168-year old newspaper have been accused of hacking into the