[ad_1] When all is well with the world, and you’re in peak health, it’s probably enough to eat well, exercise, and see a family doctor once a year. But, if that annual doctor’s visit brings dreaded news, a diagnosis of a serious disease or condition, your doctor will...

[ad_1] Buddhism and psychoanalysis take the same approach to calming the anxious mind, says Dr. Pilar Jennings—look with friendly curiosity at your anxiety and what causes it. Not long after my father died suddenly from a cardiovascular procedure, I was sitting in a...

[ad_1] “Don’t believe everything you think.” ~Unknown I am a self-confessed overthinker. I could spend hours thinking and going down the rabbit hole in my mind trying to find answers to all sorts of situations. About ten years ago, I struggled with burnout. I was a...

[ad_1] When the gunfire starts it is like a thunderclap, the monks and nuns explain, and the sound reverberates up the valley. During the game shooting season, it is not unusual for avian casualties to land within the grounds of Samye Ling, the largest Tibetan...

[ad_1] On Thich Nhat Hanh​ 1926-2022​    Published on 23 January 2022The most venerable Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away. What a great loss to this world — a world entangled in both past and future; a world that has almost no interest in dwelling in the present; a...

[ad_1] Five Wisdom Dakinis: awareness dances into elemental form, wisdom of the Five Buddhas, empowering Chod and Dharma activity Play video (subtitles and languages enabled): What are the five Wisdom Dakinis? Why are they central to Tibetan Buddhist practice? Why are...

[ad_1] Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity—these four loving qualities, says Pawan Bareja, are powerful ways to heal our trauma. Photo by Eduard Militaru The work of healing trauma makes us tender and vulnerable as we touch our history of wounds,...

[ad_1] “Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.” ~Robert Tew Everyone has fears. It is not an emotion that is only for a chosen few. One’s fear may seem irrational to the outside world, but I guarantee to that person it is...

[ad_1] China’s nearest observation posts are hundreds of miles from Dharamsala, the city in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas that hosts Tibet’s government-in-exile and its highest spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Still, Tibetans there have often felt closely...

[ad_1] Ashes ceremony – Thay’s ashes were formally carried to our Từ Hiếu Root Temple (Sunday 30 of January 2022)Thay’s funeral on Saturday, 29th January 2022, was one of the biggest Huế, Vietnam has seen for decades. Thousands came out to join the procession, in a...