Actor Richard Gere and the French author and monastic Matthieu Ricard share a serious commitment to Buddhism, and they agree that real, lasting happiness is beyond conditions and circumstances.
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains how lasting happiness requires that we carefully weigh the consequences of our actions.
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The messy, neurotic, imperfect world of politics, says John Tarrant, is the very place where the bodhisattva way is practiced and our realization is put on the line.
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David Swick profiles child psychiatrist, civil rights activist, and author Robert Coles, who has spent his life considering the nature of morality and its central place in our lives.
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We'll always be conditioned beings living in a conditioned world. But, explains Ezra Bayda, we can learn to see the clouds of conditioning as just clouds in the context of the sky. To do this we need the precision of practice.
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Natalie Goldberg recalls a time when the bottom fell out of her life, when her place, purpose, and even her Zen practice seemed groundless. Was that a problem or the very point?
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We are all subject to the pain of loss, grief, sadness and even plain disappointment. Life is difficult. But by talking to one another about it, says Sylvia Boorstein, we console. It is enough.
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