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    Zen Moorings Paid Member

    By Marshall Glickman
    Like many so-called spiritual seekers, I started meditating when I was struggling and open to change. It was my senior year in college, and I was confused about what to do after graduating. At the time, it seemed I had one of two choices: either to follow my freedom-loving and searching side, the one that studied philosophy, traveled during the summers, and experimented with recreational drugs; or to heed my success-is-real-important suburban New York Jewish upbringing—the part of me that gunned for A’s, knew my G.P.A. down to the second decimal point, and could rattle off a list of the country’s top law schools. Ultimately, I abandoned my childhood plans to become a lawyer or a professional of any kind, but it left me anxious. Looking for some peace of mind, I turned to Zen meditation. More »
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    Painting With A Turtle Hair Paintbrush Paid Member

    By Jim Harrison
    When mentally fragile, I like to drive to a far city, say at least a few hundred miles from any of the three modest places my family lives, check in to a somewhat pathetic brand-name motel with the pleasant feeling that I won’t know a single soul in the local phone book. And that my own phone won’t ring except in the case of a dire event, because my wife is well aware of my motives for staying in the anonymous room. More »
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    Looking For My Life Paid Member

    By Scott Genmyo Miller
    For the past month the residents of Great Vow Zen Monastery and the wider sangha have taken on the practice of looking at anxiety in our lives. We’ve started to look at when it arises, what shape it takes, and how we manage when it is present. We’ve also been looking at how long that thread (although actually it’s more like a dense chord or rope—I’m imagining jute rope or telephone wire) has been sewn into the fabric of our lives. I’m learning that anxiety and fear are almost always present throughout my days and nights. More »
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    Moving Toward Harmony Paid Member

    By Eric Oberg
    The Third StepWhen you feel that you are being challenged, step into the center of the problem Take the opposite line of reasoning Resolve the conflict by understanding the other side of the argument Tai no henka (Turn the Body)When you meet resistance, do not fight harder Let the attack change you Become the person you need to become in order to resolve the conflict Be flexible in the way you move and in the way you see yourself More »
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    Buddhism Awarded A Coveted Pro-Business Rating Paid Member

    By P.B. Law
    NEW YORK, Feb. 10—A twenty-year-old public relations campaign by major Buddhist leaders appears to have paid off, according to a business-climate poll released today by magazine. For the first time in the fifty-year history of the poll, business leaders across the country have ranked Buddhism among the nation’s top ten business-friendly religions. More »
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    The Phone Rings Paid Member

    By Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano
    Returning home from work or from a morning of household errands, we pause on the front porch, holding bags and packages in one arm while trying to work the door key, so absorbed in daydreams that we hardly know what the body is doing—when we hear the telephone ringing within. At once, our automatic motions are speeded up until, hopping and stumbling, we shove our way inside and drop our burdens on top of the table in the hall. More »