samsara

Drops in the ocean: Buddhist reflections on David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas”

Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, is a ripping good read with plenty of action and suspense. It's also a cautionary…

September 14, 2011

Facing Samsara, making a difference

Climate change. The economic downturn. Terrorism. And now there’s Haiti. A client and I were conversing recently about the mess…

January 27, 2010

G.K. Chesterton: “The true object of all human life is play.”

The bodhisattva moves through life elegantly, "in the zone" and in a state of playful "flow," and he can do…

July 27, 2009

Stop samsara, I want to get off!

Finding contentment in a materialistic world, or, how our author didn't buy an iPhone, and then did, and then didn't…

June 18, 2009

Prisoners of samsara

Over the years that Bodhipaksa has worked in prisons he's observed that some of the inmates he works with are…

May 11, 2009

The greatest story ever told? (Independent, UK)

A 1993 romantic comedy starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell is being hailed by religious leaders as the most spiritual…

February 2, 2004