Reverence is the Nature of My Love: A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency

I recently learned that there are numerous accounts of recipients of organ transplants taking on the characteristics, talents, food cravings, emotions and even memories of their organ donors. I am interested in phenomena that...

It’s an unusually busy workday, a week before the release of a new book which has spent a long time in creative incubation. In the mirror of deadlines and an overwhelming inbox, I observe...

An excerpt from Martin Aylward’s book “Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness” (2021) – shared with permission. The Buddha talked about the Three Jewels of this practice being Buddha, Dharma, Sangha....

Instead of seeing enlightenment as something far away from us, we can realise that it’s closer than close. Seeing our experiences as empty opens a way of resting in our own centre. What if enlightenment...

Dear Friend, You might’ve heard about our new Sangha Live community platform, for Dharma sharing & socializing in between our meditation sits. Maybe you’ve created a profile… joined a few spaces… shared a beautiful...

We all long to be happy. Not happy as in glee but deep contentment. We all long to feel at ease, to know that we’re okay, that life is okay, to be at peace....

Pride celebrations, which largely occur during the months of June, July, and August, are dedicated to celebrating the freedoms we have as LGBTQIA2S+ people and for campaigning for the human rights of Queer and...

Recently my husband and I visited the desert southwest to visit Ancient Puebloan sites. Despite choosing early June to beat the summer heat, a massive heat wave had already blanketed the region as climate...

There is a subtle, deep and invisible toll to this pandemic, another kind of loss of life: the loss of our embodied social life, the fractures in our circles of belonging. These fractures can be...

The Buddha often described practice in terms of the metaphor “untangling the tangles”. Some of the tangles we create include: Habitual patterns which cause you stress/suffering Identity self-view The tangle of existence MindfulnessTo help...