Even when I was ten, I worried constantly about the suffering in the world, but other people didn’t seem worried, and they told me to stop worrying so much. That’s why Buddhism fascinates me. It was the one thing I encountered that didn’t tell me that someone else...
There is a popular quote allegedly by Albert Einstein: The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the...
Buddhism is all about freedom and liberation. The final goal of Buddhist practice is total liberation from all suffering. But even before reaching that final goal, you will find yourself gaining freedom in many different ways at many different levels. You may, for...
Featured image by Brian Harris at tnp.org. My dear friend and teacher Norman Fischer is quite unusual. He is a Zen master (Zen being a major school of Buddhism) who received many years of rigorous training under the tutelage of classically-trained Zen...
“They say they are here to measure your faith.” Just because Buddhism is highly empirical does not mean faith has no place in Buddhism. One place faith can play a very important role is when you have not yet acquired the equipment to verify certain...
