Buddhist ethics can be a difficult topic to study or discuss in the contemporary age. Ethics as a category of … Read More “What the “Buddhist Poker Player” can teach us about Buddhist Ethics”
Beatrice Lane Kamakura, 1915. Today I read a student essay which cited B.L. Suzuki. I was intrigued. B.L.? In college … Read More “Thinking of that other-other Suzuki: Beatrice Lane”
Like many people following the news today, I find myself deeply worried about climate change. Scientists are offering more and … Read More “Tugging on Our Feelings about Climate Change?”
This month Thomas Wells, a philosophy professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, offered a plea for more active government … Read More “Moral laziness, vegetarianism, and government intervention”
In my life as a Buddhist practitioner, I have gone from early days with the Friends of the Western Buddhist … Read More “Gathering Nectar”
In July I read the account of a philosopher spending time at the famous Trappist monastery called the Abbey of … Read More “In Praise of the Monastic Experience, a Taste of Chinese Buddhism”
Amid the turmoil and scandal of the contemporary political world, many eyes are turning toward China as a natural counterbalance … Read More “China’s Harmony and Freedom from Fear”
It is commonly understood that the final goal of Buddhist practice involves a realization of not-self, or no-self; the direct … Read More “Recognizing the future in a greater self”
“All compounded things are impermanent,” we are taught by the Buddha. Yet how often do we cling to this or … Read More “Transitions”
Lately, a discussion I have had among many friends, both online and off, has been about how deeply engaged in … Read More “The Pitfall of Moral Outrage”
