These are the last days that we will share with Joanna Macy, as the beloved Buddhist scholar and founder of The Work That Reconnects spends her remaining time in hospice care with her friends and family. Death comes for us all, of course. My Buddhist perspective on...
The greatest weapon authoritarians have at their disposal is their ability to demoralize the resistance by making its members feel isolated and powerless. When people feel alone and defenseless, they follow Aesop’s advice that it’s better to bend than to break; better...
Previous versions of this article were published in Turning Wheel (2004) and The Existential Buddhist (2016). It still seems relevant today. What is it that is specifically Buddhist about engaged Buddhism? Are we simply conducting our old politics under a new banner,...
