When cultures converge . . .

Nurturing the garden of Buddhist compassion

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

It is said that your conditions determine your vocation in life. Sometimes, such a proverb overlooks the role that human hands play in dealing a reshuffle to the deck of fate. We forget how human acti