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Reflections
In an excerpt from her new book, The Lie About the Truck, Sallie Tisdale depicts self-consciousness as the human condition.
September 11, Then & Now
20 years after 9/11, teachers who shared practices and perspectives at the time reflect on what their words mean today
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Naked: Conditioning Uncovered
Like the Buddha seeing Mara, much conditioning scuffles off, powerless, once it is seen and fully understood. The work is to know it, not to hide from or fight it.
The Private Side of Thomas Cleary
The translator saw himself as a spy sneaking ideas across the mind’s borders
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Letting Go to Find Yourself
How one writer’s confrontation with emptiness helped to shed and define their identity.
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Diary from the Bardo
As a writer processes her miscarriage, the Tibetan Buddhist concept of the bardo helps her gather fortitude and insight where there had been misery and victimization.
Delusions of Victory
When losing is winning, winning is empty.
Sweets and Suffering
A Won Buddhist teacher on how we consume suffering and how suffering consumes us
The Spiritual Work of a Worldly Life
Buddhist teachings offer more than an escape from the samsaric world.
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