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Barbara Gates
Barbara Gates is a writer and developmental editor living in Berkeley, California. Author of Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place (Shambhala, 2003) and other publications, she was cofounder and coeditor in chief of Inquiring Mind. She is currently working on a memoir: On the Trail of Birth and Death.
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Reflecting on the transitory nature of the self images we carry
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
All of the Nature to Change
A hike through the woods provides a lesson in impermanence.
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Suffering Is Not Enough: An Early Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh
The wisdom in a 1985 interview with the Vietnamese Zen master rings as true today as it did then.
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Found in Translation
Exploring the Day of the Dead, a writer learns to reframe painful past experiences and let go.
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Cycles of Motherhood
A practitioner reflects on her mother’s uniquely challenging qualities following a trip to the emergency room.
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My Teacher, The Tree
Thai Buddhist monk Ajahn Pasanno and environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill discuss what nature can teach us about love in an interview with Inquiring Mind.
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Standing as Equals
A conversation with Rinchen Khando Choegyal, founder of the Tibetan Nuns Project
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