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...
Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard being readied for a fMRI test. Well, better him than me. (Image by Jeff Miller from wisc.edu, source.) The 14th Dalai Lama famously said, If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then...
The Buddha was said to be “ever smiling”, and his disciples said to be “joyful and elated, jubilant and exultant, enjoying the spiritual life, with faculties pleased, free from anxiety, serene, and peaceful.”[1] The same appears to be true of modern-day Buddhist...
