non-attachment

Poison in the sugar-bowl

Many, many years ago, when I was in my twenties, I was at the apartment of a newly divorced woman…

September 5, 2019

Seven essentials of mindfulness practice

Dr. Frank Lipman, The Epoch Times: Nearly twenty years ago, I did a workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., whose first…

January 14, 2015

My happiness does not depend on this: old teaching, new words

"My happiness does not depend on this." The thought crossed my mind as I sat one day in a traffic…

April 5, 2012

When spiritual practice gets in the way of spiritual progress

Spiritual practices are intended to help us free ourselves from self-clinging, but sometimes they can become subtle, or not-so-subtle ways…

March 16, 2012

Capturing the moment

I was sitting in a café with my friend David when he said, ‘There’s something to look at behind you.’…

February 21, 2012

Non-attachment, and engagement with the world

Inspired Entrepreneur Nick Williams talks with Srimati, a former member of the Western Buddhist Order, about non-attachment. Srimati explains that…

January 21, 2010

Letting go, always letting go

In the first of a series of articles, The Rev. Canon Renée Miller explores Buddhist practice from the perspective of…

October 28, 2009

Love, sex, and non-attachment

Is it possible to be in a committed sexual relationship and follow the Buddha’s teaching on non-attachment? Does loving someone…

January 22, 2009

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

Monks work to construct mandala (The Penn Online, Pennsylvania)

Meditation, as practiced by the 10 Tibetan Buddhist monks visiting IUP this week, provides "stability and calmness" and opens the…

October 29, 2003