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...
Who could’ve predicted the wonderful unintended consequences of these terrible political times in our beloved American democracy! Who could’ve predicted that a small group of Buddhist visionaries would be inspired to conceive of a new coalition—a diverse Buddhist...
“Takes all kinds of people to make up a world.” These words were spoken by Kurt Vonnegut’s beloved fictional weirdo, Kilgore Trout, in his book Breakfast of Champions. In the scene, Trout is having a conversation with a truck driver about people with religious beliefs...
