In a previous post published here in October, I wrote this essay, in which I began to piece together what I had hoped would be a useful perspective through which we liberal Buddhists might take a more compassionate view of our various friends, colleagues, and family...
It is a wonderful occurrence when you can share something you love with someone who is as enamored of it as you are. This kind of connection is one of the joys of life. In a world where we are digitally connected more than ever before, are we losing the personal...
As a member of the coordinating committee for the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy—an organization that supports democracy through methods consistent with Buddhist principles of wisdom, compassion, Right Speech, and nonviolence—I was tasked with writing about our...
When Vice President J. D. Vance recently announced that the administration would “follow the law” but not a federal court order mandating full funding for SNAP benefits, he may have believed he was drawing a fine distinction between reason and judicial excess....
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is a film that feels less like a story than a meditation—a cinematic sutra on suffering, impermanence, and the mystery of grace that maps our current condition as human beings. Among its most haunting scenes, a dinosaur presses its...
