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    Ten Mindful Ways to Use Social Media Paid Member

    By Lori Deschene
    For the last two years, I have provided a daily wisdom quote through a Twitter account called Tiny Buddha. Since the follower count has grown by leaps and bounds, people have suggested I tweet more often throughout the day. I’ve realized, however, that the greatest lesson we can all learn is that less is enough. In a time when connections can seem like commodities and online interactions can become casually inauthentic, mindfulness is not just a matter of fostering increased awareness. It’s about relating meaningfully to other people and ourselves. With this goal in mind, I’ve compiled a list of 10 tips for using social media mindfully.  More »
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    Poetry as Path: Five Haiku by Basho Paid Member

    By Lucien Stryk
    Awaiting snow, poets in their cups see lightning flash *Noon doze, wall cool against my feet. *Do not forget the plum, blooming in the thicket. *Dipping moon, sea-pungent  rice wine. * Skylark on moor—sweet song of non-attachment. ▼ Translated by Lucien Stryk from On Lbve and Barley: Haiku of Basho, Penguin: New York, 1985. More »
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    Basho as Teacher Paid Member

    By Jane Hirshfield
    Don't follow the old masters' footsteps, seek what they sought. To learn about pine trees, go to the pine tree; to learn of the bamboo, study bamboo. Old pond frog jumps in the sound of water. More »
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    Second Innocence: With Basho at Sesshin Paid Member

    By Chase Twichell
    I've just returned home from the New Year sesshin at Zen Mountain Monastery, where I'm a student of John Daido Loori. Basho was there, too. Not in person, of course (having died in 1694), and not in print, since reading and writing are not allowed during sesshin. But he was there nonetheless, a stowaway in my mind, because I was trying hard to achieve what the poet Elizabeth Bishop, in another context, called "a perfectly useless, self-forgetful concentration," and Basho's poems, which spring from exactly that kind of mind, have been another of my teachers. More »
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    Basho's Practice Paid Member

    By Sam Hamill
    When studying the work of the masters, / I watch the working of their minds." Lu Chi's advice to aspiring writers of the third century has been especially appealing to the followers of Basho, students and critics alike. Just when every scrap, every journal of every acquaintance, every letter and paraphrase had been thrice examined and commented on and theorized about, along carne the Kobe earthquake, and three hundred years after its completion, the "final" version of Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior was discovered. A new, annotated manuscript edition was quickly published, confirming the longstanding proposition that the poet continued to revise his masterwork even during his last days. More »
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    The Secret of Perfect Recall Paid Member

    By Erik Pema Kunsang
    Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt), a native of Denmark, is the publisher of Rangjung Yeshe Publications, which translates contemporary Tibetan teachings and classical Buddhist texts into English. He studied under Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and many other masters. Currently, he is a student of and interpreter for Tulku Urgyen's sons, particularly the eldest, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. He lives in Nepal, publishing out of Kathmandu, Denmark, and California, together with his wife, Marcia Binder Schmidt. Do you consider your translation and interpretation work to be practice? Definitely. So would a Buddhist practitioner's translation necessarily be different from a purely academic translation? Yeah. I noticed that the more kindness and the more insight our translators have the better they are at conveying the dharma in an authentic way. It's not about just "getting the words right." More »