Personal Reflections (Meta)Physical Education
Little Buddhas in the Classroom
Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders come clean about their morning mindfulness routine
Children
Five Tricycle Stories to Celebrate Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day, we practice learning to see all beings as our mother in order to shift toward a kinder way of being.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Practice
Gym—and meditation—can be both about what we do and how we make sense of what we do.
Kids Say the Dharmdest Things, Part II
The second installment of koans collected by a Montessori gym teacher
(Meta)Physical Education: Playing with Time
What can adults learn from how kids relate to time?
Authentic Self
Raising a bilingual child raises questions of identity.
Personal Reflections Parenting
No Need for Words
In the absence of language, a poet realizes the fullness of maternal love.
Tibetan Children at Surmang Celebrate Losar
via Lyndon Comstock in the Shambhala Times, Surmang Dutsi Til shedra school in eastern Tibet recently took examinations in reading, writing, and arithmetic. A ceremony honoring those who did especially well was attended by hundreds of…
Family Dharma: Karma and the Tonka Truck
The Buddha called the law of karma “the light of the world” because it illuminates how and why things happen in our lives. The force of karma is a fundamental principle underlying all Buddhist teachings, and…
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