Belén Boville travels to Cuba’s Kosen Shin-ji temple, 20 kilometers from Havana, with food and other supplies for the needy
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One Team, Three Causes: Feeding Hong Kong on Reducing Waste, Helping the Poor, and Mitigating Climate Change
Feeding Hong Kong is changing the city’s relationship with food waste, and helping the environment and the city’s disadvantaged at the same time
#CAN5CAN: Earth Day’s Economic and Environmental Connections in Hong Kong
Earth Day 2023 is the perfect chance to explore the interconnection between food waste and poverty
A Meditative Smile in a Dark Place: Learning the Dharma in a Bolivian Prison
Liliana Arias Romero’s BDE article on teaching meditation inside a Bolivian women’s prison
Robes: An Invitation to Connect
Most Zen monks in the west only wear their robes for ceremonial purposes. But I’ve found that when I’m on my way to or from the zendo and wearing my robes, strangers in the street will approach me, wanting to talk. It’s not usually that they’re interested in Buddhism, it’s that they’re lonely and feel […]
Service, to sip, Sunset Boulevard
I saw her again last night—the old raving woman with the girlish pigtails, trailing bin bags behind her that were visibly overflowing with knickknacks. This time, instead of yelling at me, she targeted my dog. “You evil man,” she told him, “I know what you did!” Her eyes didn’t leave him, even when he started […]
Cardboard boxes in the rain
cardboard boxes in the rainin the small streetbehind the hospital near the boxesa cat lies dead in the hospitala woman is giving birth