It's my birthday today, and it's unlike any I can remember from my now 63 years on this planet. It's…
New 'Living Buddha' Reported Discovered What does his Holiness the Dalai Lama have to do with moral panics over "marihuana,"…
Today, February 15, is known as Parinirnava Day in much of the Buddhist world. It commemorates the anniversary of the…
My sister, Fiona, passed away last month, unexpectedly. Yes, she was being treated for cancer, and had been for several…
I am fascinated and touched and inspired by the deep love many children have for wild animals. It's a love…
I lost my beloved orange cat Rusty last June. There’s something about a relationship with a pet that’s so different…
Someone asked me the other day whether there was a contradiction between the Buddha saying that "life is suffering" and…
A well-known Buddhist teaching explains that all (or at least most) beings have, at one time or another in the…
Dean Nelson, TheAge.com.au: The family and followers of one of India's wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders are fighting a legal battle…
In learning to experience deep peace in the face of impermanence, we need to consider not just our inner experience,…