The Land of Medicine Buddha is a Buddhist retreat center close to Santa Cruz, CA. It consists of 108 acres of beautiful redwood trees, trails and sacred sites. It was founded by two Tibetan Buddhist teachers whom I admire: Lama Yeshe, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. I...
Soryu and I live on opposite ends of the continental United States: he runs his monastery in Vermont, and I live along the coast in California. We were both so overwhelmingly busy we haven’t talked in months. One day, I checked in on him. “Where are...