Insights into life, interconnection, and non-self

Extracts from the Samyutta Nikaya

Cultivating the key to realization

Self and non-self: glimpses of the inner vastness

Thoughts on the first Carmelite-Buddhist interfaith dialogue

Insight in uncertainty

Meditating on metta

A new paradigm for peace

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

Raymond Lam reflects on Modi's Buddhist diplomacy

A new perspective on finding meaning in retirement

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is terrifying for many reasons. It is particularly frightening because of its macabre appeal to youth around the world, who should have little reason to sneak aw

There are many statements in Buddhist literature that make pleasure sound like something we should totally avoid. It might take some careful reading to recognize that the threat isn’t pleasure itself,

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