Many years ago Trungpa Rinpoche warned against spiritual materialism for he was taught the path of radical non-duality. Not the subtle...

In the Dhammapada we could learn that it is better to spend an hour in meditation than to squander a lifetime tending a sacred flame. And...

The Buddha had a very good bullshit detector. His process for detecting malarkey was straight forward; when presented with a teaching, he...

Although a reduction, at the hands of a vegan chef, can be a delicious component of ethical cuisine, its conceptual cousin, REDUCTIVE...

A month doesn’t go by without someone asking if thus or so is a fraud. Why? Are you seeking to police the Dharma: controlling who can say...

In the Pali cannon a tale is told how members of the priestly class asked the Buddha’s permission to translate his teachings into the...

How can we sit on our over-fed asses when the continued rise of fascism, jingoism, and ecocide, (no less speciesism, sexism, racism, and...

Let us discuss sets of Buddhist prayers (or Sa-dha-nas, if your nasty). What is the most spiritually productive attitude we could have...

There are brave men and women who put themselves in harm’s way, so we don’t have to. And many of these military folk must run on a daily...

How could we rescue the Buddha’s teachings from the rigid, fearful, controlling, elitist, and competitive who could make of it a downer?...

A random bloke asked if one could take refuge by oneself. The answer depends upon who you ask, and what kind of Buddhist you wish to be....

We are living in a golden age of dating. Gone is the need to rely on happenstance to cross your path with your life partner’s or to troll...

Beware of those who would tell us what to think; who would tell us what to feel, intend, think, recall, and imagine. What will they try...

Recall your favorite statue depicting the Buddha sitting in meditation. Gaze upon his face; it is the epitome of serenity, is it not? Is...

Like a thief in the night death comes to steal our loved ones. It will come for us as well. In the meantime what are we to do with that...

Yes, it could be a bit of a balancing act. When evil acts are perpetrated against our friends we could lament, and rage, and become too...

There are some, who having perceived the Buddha’s teachings through the lens of rigidity, fear, controlling tendencies, elitism, and...

You’ve sat upon your meditation cushion and lit a candle before a statue of the Buddha, the patron saint (for want of a better term) of...

Dear H., I am so sorry for the trauma you’ve endured and the very great difficulty you’re having living with you central nervous system:...

What is the kerfuffle with tantric empowerment? Is it a necessary means of preparing the mind stream of a student for the potentially...