An American Zen teacher brings koan practice to the modern world

Insight in uncertainty

The role of Buddhism in fostering global change

Can we be skillfully unhappy?

Working toward collective liberation

Insights from a Zen teacher and author

Zen themes and calligraphy from a range of Japanese artists

Viewing perfection as a goal rather than a destination

Exploring feminine spirituality within the Zen tradition

The spiritual enquiries of an American Buddhist scholar

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

Editor’s note: David Brazier is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and psychotherapist. He is President at Instituto Terapia Zen Internacional in Spain and the head of the Amida Order in the United Kingdom.

Applying the Buddhist Four Truths to climate change

Like many photographers, I was trained as a painter. I also did pottery and continue to study schools of Asian philosophy. I do not consider myself to be an ex-painter or a potter of yore, but rather