Category: Dharma in Daily Life
The Paradox of Happiness
Real happiness is what we all want, but none of our strategies for finding it seem to work. Maybe it's the search for happiness that makes us unhappy. John Tarrant has some thoughts on why the Buddha smiles.
Forum: The Importance of Study
The Importance of Study: a panel discussion with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, John Daido Loori, Christina Feldman and Georges Dreyfus.
The Cushion Or the Couch?
Psychotherapy & Buddhism, according to pschyoteraphist Barry Magid.
Jonathan Schell on the Choice We Face
The world faces a critical choice: whether to use military power or nonviolent political means to resolve our affairs. Jonathan Schell on this choice.
A Courageous Activity
It may look as if we're doing nothing on the cushion, but in fact we're cultivating peace. From that point of view, the practice of meditation is a very courageous activity.
Reader Essays: Politics
Buddhadharma readers share their experience of Buddhist practice in everyday life as it relates to politics.
Ordained At Last
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, formerly known as Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, became the first Thai woman to receive full ordination as a Theravadin nun.
Profile: Zen Hospice Society
People who enter the Zen Hospice Project are not seeking a path of meditation, and they will not hear much about “Zen” or “Buddhism” while they are there.
Kobun Chino’s Trailer
Reginald Ray writes a remembrance of Zen master and famed calligrapher Kobun Chino Roshi, who died tragically with his young daughter in July, 2002.
Relaxing with Suffering
"I'm certain that compassion is the only possible response to pain, yet I still sometimes become resentful when I or someone else is suffering."
After twenty years, I’m wondering: “What’s the point?”
I've been a Buddhist for more than twenty years and I've done a lot of meditation practice. More and more I find myself asking "What's the point?"
The Red Coat and the Teaching of Impermanence
“In that moment, I discovered a love for her that had nothing to do with my own preconceptions.”
Where Business Looks for Answers
As our world grows more chaotic and unpredictable, says Margaret Wheatley, we're asking questions that can only be answered by spiritual traditions.
The Buddha’s Bravery
According to Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, to have the definite intention to emerge from samsara is an act of warriorship, a way of dealing with our fear of death.
It’s Time to Listen
Margaret Wheatley discusses how to heal in the months following the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
Don’t Be So Sure
In a changing world, certainty doesn't give us stability; it just creates more chaos. "Now is the time for far less certainty and far more curiousity."