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Personal Reflections
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Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life In Tibetan Buddhism, “bardo” is a between-state. The passage from death to rebirth is a bardo, as well as the journey from birth to death. The conversations in “Between-States” explore…
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Personal Reflections Buddhist Chaplaincy
Dancing into Silence as Love
Dancer and choreographer Keely Garfield shares how her chaplaincy work in end-of-life care and trauma has taught her to embrace a practice of stillness and silence.
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Awakening with a Rude Driver
A meditation teacher on countering reactive responses on the road
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Who Was She?
Reflecting on the transitory nature of the self images we carry
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Personal Reflections Pop Culture
‘Dragon Ball’ to Soto Zen
Struggling for a spiritual identity amid cultural and sectarian conflicts in the Middle East, a writer finds a refuge in nonattachment.
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Personal Reflections Technology
What’s Buddhism Got to Do with AI?
Can Buddhist teachings serve to mitigate the harms generated by AI?
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Personal Reflections Death & Dying
Zen and ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’
What Albert Camus and the absurdists can teach us about our wandering minds
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Personal Reflections Relationships
There Is No Yesterday and No Tomorrow
Artist Jenny Odell on how paying attention can break us out of linear time
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Finding the Words
In his seventy-fith year, a surprising thing happened to meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein: He began writing poetry.
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