Kobai Scott Whitney

KOBAI SCOTT WHITNEY is a writer and Buddhist chaplain who is on staff at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center in Washington State. He is author of  Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in America’s Prisons.

Waking up in sobriety, by Kobai Scott Whitney

Both the 12-Step program and the Buddhist path of recovery from suffering can be described as "recovery from the ego."…

December 28, 2007

The Upper Middle Way – Have North American Buddhists renounced renunciation?

Historians of religion often repeat the accepted truth that it takes about two centuries for a culture to absorb a…

April 10, 2007