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    A City of Dreams Paid Member

    By Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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    Wash Your Bowl Paid Member

    LIN JENSEN explains the trouble with attributing spiritual significance to the simple activities of our lives. More »
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    The Beginner Asks: Paid Member

    The Ten Harmful Activities More »
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    Thoughts on my teacher: No Hair in Your Mind Paid Member

    REVEREND CHAN TU on her relationship with the late most VENERABLE DR. THICH MAN GIAC, Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnamese United Buddhist Churches of America, who passed away October 13, 2006, at the age of 77 More »
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    Bad Reputation Paid Member

    By The Dalai Lama
    See the equality of praise and blame, approval and disapproval, good and bad reputation, For they are just like illusions or dreams and have no true existence. THIS VERSE REFERS to the Eight Worldly Concerns: wanting to be praised and not wanting to be criticized, wanting happiness and not wanting suffering, wanting gain and not wanting loss, and wanting fame and approval and not wanting rejection and disgrace. We all experience these, don't we? Even animals probably have them in some slight measure. More »
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    Tackling Enlightenment Paid Member

    By John Kain
    In the first installment of a new regular feature by students about their teachers, John Kain talks about John Daido Loori Roshi. We encourage readers to send us reflections on their teachers. More »