February 2023
Life of a Meditator (Part 2) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo
Life of a Meditator (Part 1) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo
Speculative Views Sutra
August 2022
Dukkha without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology
Buddhist Practice, Plant Medicine, and Healing: An Interview with Spring Washam
The Value of Seclusion
April 2022
Editor’s Letter: Paradigm Shifts
A Dharma Heart for These Times
Going in, reaching out: The Dharma in us and amongst us
Finding Zen: Strength In The Dharma And The Sword
All Cops Are Buddhas (ACAB): Stretching our Empathy and Defunding the Police
February 2022
The Bhara Sutta
Interdependence and Healing: Natalie Avalos on Practice, Scholarship, and the Liberating Power of Ceremony
In Memoriam: Thich Nhat Hanh
November 2021
Friendship, the Whole of Life Well-lived
The Interplay Between Meditation Theory and Practice
Grieving for the Buddha: Three Cambodian Songs
Reflections on Nibbana
July 2021
Technologies of Transformation: The Power of Spiritual Autobiography
Bhikkhu Anālayo and Mu Soeng: A Conversation on Study, Practice, and Monastic Life
The Ibex Sutra
May 2021
Narratives of Grief, Narratives of Care
Practice for Self, Practice for Others: A Prison Minister’s Reflections on Faith and Freedom
Into the Heart of Suffering: Lessons From the Story of the Tigress
An Excerpt from Storied Companions
A Country Called Witness
Honoring Our Ancestors: A Buddhist Response to Anti-Asian Violence
February 2021
The Idea of Dhammadāna
Sense Restraint in Daily Life: Recommendations from a Health Behavior Change Perspective
The Best Buddhist Story: Yasodhara’s Love and Loss
Wings of Wisdom and Compassion: Lessons of Freedom from Japanese American Internment in WWII
October 2020
The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
What Does No-Self Really Mean?
Consciousness and Dependent Arising
Contemplative Practice in Dharma and Art: Attention, Sensation, and Transformation
August 2020
The Five ‘Fingers’ of Name
Encountering and Practicing Buddhism in Integrated Sanghas
Living Our Histories, Shaping Our Futures: Buddhist Practice and Anti-Racist Education for White People
April 2020
Dependent Arising
“When I Could Do Nothing”: Buddhism and the Practice of Poetry in a Time of Pandemic
Climate, Corona, and Collapse: The Dharma was Made for these Times
January 2020
Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 4: Walking the Path
Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 3: Liberation of the Mind
Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 2: An Ethics of the Mind
Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 1: Relating to the Earth
November 2019
Rebirth and the West
Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and the EcoSangha: The Practice of the Wild in the Anthropocene
Taking Freedom to Extremes: Teachings for Responsible Social Action
August 2019
Craving and dukkha
A Whole-Life Path: A Layperson’s Immersive Approach to the Noble Eightfold Path
Mu Soeng and the Evolution of the BCBS Library
May 2019
On Time
Five Spiritual Faculties
Being Time
February 2019
Food and Insight
A Conversation about Cultural Spiritual Bypassing
The Inherently Relational Nature of the Buddhist Path
October 2018
The Influxes and Mindful Eating
Satipatthana in Dialogue with Suffering and Oppression
July 2018
The Many Faces of Nonduality
Development Along the Path: Nirvana, Numinous Experience, and Emptiness
The Underlying Tendencies
April 2018
The Challenge of Pain
Māna: Conceits of the Self
The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony
February 2018
Distraction: Strategies for Overcoming Distracting Thoughts
The Potential of Pleasant Feelings
October 2017
2017 Vedana Conference
September 2017
What About Neutral Feelings?
June 2017
Putting Art-Making Back on the Map III: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS
May 2017
Putting Art-Making Back on the Map II: Dharma and Art Symposium at BCBS
April 2017
Putting Art-Making Back on the Map I: Dharma and Arts Symposium at BCBS
March 2017
Death Contemplation
February 2017
The Nibbāna Interview
January 2017
Diversity Assumptions, Implicit Values, and Seeking Refuge
December 2016
The Work of Diversity: A Deeper Engagement
November 2016
Alagaddūpama Sutta~The Discourse on the Snake Simile
October 2016
The Work of Diversity: Getting Messy, Getting Uncomfortable
September 2016
Vedanā Part 2: Addressing Views and Clinging at the Source
August 2016
Vedanā Part 1: Addressing Views and Clinging at the Source
July 2016
Practicing Your Way Out of Doubt, Synthesizing Styles, and the Underground Abhidhamma
June 2016
Coming Clean on Diversity and Staying in Love with Practice
May 2016
Mindfulness in Different Buddhist Traditions
April 2016
The Convergence of Vedanā, Our Mammalian Physiology, and Awakening
March 2016
Vipassanā, the Three Characteristics, and the First Satipatthāna
February 2016
Truths with Consequences
Skinny Gotamī and the Mustard Seed
January 2016
Urban Hermit: A Different Way of Being in the World
Dharma as Dāna
December 2015
Jhānas, Lucid Dreaming, and Letting There Be Just Seeing in the Seeing
Long Retreats, Selfie Sticks, and the Five Faculties
November 2015
Mettā: What It Is, What It Isn’t
October 2015
This World Is Not Yours
Vipassana in Snow White: A Fairy Tale Jataka Story
The Tathāgata Is “Truly Gone”
Investigation: Listening as Deeply as We Possibly Can
Renunciation: The Highest Happiness
Māra Meets His Match (Samyutta Nikāya 1.5.2)
Bowing to Life Deeply
Faith: Its Role and Meaning in a Buddhist Wisdom Tradition
Buddhist Psychology: Classical Texts in Contemporary Perspective
A Tree Called Steadfast (Anguttara Nikaya 6.5.54)
Speech as Skillful Means
No Greater Contentment: The Poem of Bhuta (Theragāthā 522-526)
Breaking the Cycle (Brāhmaṇa Saṃyutta [SN 7.2.2])
Directed and Undirected Meditation (Satipatthana Samyutta 47.1.10)
Cultivating Equanimity
You Call Yourself a Farmer?: Kasibhāradvāja Sutta (SN 76-80)
The Foolish Monkey (Samyutta Nikāya 47.7)
May All Beings Practice Dying
Flying in the Face of Death
Dharma on the Front Lines: Finding a Path
A Fourth Turning of the Wheel? Ambedkar Buddhism
Practicing the Middle Way: Devadaha Sutta
Working With Fear
Irresistible Force (Saṃyutta Nikāya 3.3.5)
One Tool Among Many: The Place of Vipassana in Buddhist Practice
Upon the Tip of a Needle (Mahā Niddesa 1.42)
Sitting Just to Sit
Let the Wilderness Serve! (Saṃyutta Nikāya 6.2.3)
To the Forest for Refuge
Mindfulness: Gateway into Experience
The Thorn in Your Heart (Selections from the Attadaṇḍa Sutta)
Like Moths to the Flame (Udāna 6.9)
The Healing Medicine of Dhamma (Milinda-pañho 335)
Three Views of Transience
The Interdependent Arising of Feeling (Insight into the Aggregates)
The Experience of Feeling (Insight into the Aggregates)
A Day of Practice and Discussion, Inspired by the Maṇgala Sutta
Looking in the Mirror
The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening
Mindfulness
The Aṭṭhaka-vagga of the Sutta Nipata
Cutting the Stream: The Shorter Discourse on the Cowherd (Majjhima 34)
The Blooming Lotus (Theragāthā 700 & 701)
Teaching and Confusing the Dharma
Waking Up In Relationships
Finding Our Place
Taking Responsibility for Our Thoughts: Reflections on the Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta
The Wings of the Bodhisattva
The Distortions of the Mind: Aṅguttara Nikāya 4:49
Body People, Mind People
Stealing the Scent (Saṃyutta Nikāya 9:14)
A Ripple in a Pond
It Can Be Very Simple
How to Understand
Stillness and Insight
Healing or Harming
A Simple Matter of Choice?
Leaving No Trace
The Moon Released (Theragāthā 871-873)
Tapas
Full Ordination for Nuns Restored in Sri Lanka
Dharma Rain
The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism
Zazen Is Not the Same as Meditation
A Beautiful Paradox
Climbing to the Top of the Mountain
Healing the Wounds of the World
From Self-Judgement to Being Ourselves
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
Instructions for Entering Jhāna
Resistance in Meditation
Putting Down the Burden
King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Samyutta Nikāya 3:13)
The Visuddhi Magga on the Brahma-Vihāras
From Burma to Barre
Meditation and the Therapist
Whose Life Is This, Anyway?
Becoming More Clearly Human
The Non-Pursuit of Happiness
Sharing What You Love
Fear, Pain …and Trust
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
All About Change
Teaching Meditation to Children and Beginners
Crossing the Rohini (Therāgāthā 527-9)
War and Peace
The Working of Boundless Compassion
In This World, Hate Never Yet Dispelled Hate
Generating Spiritual Friendship: Reflections from a Gray Haired Mentor
Lessons from an Illness
What Is Mindfulness… And Why Is It Important to Therapists?
The Steadfast Family Man (Anguttara Nikaya 5:40 & 3:48)
A Tiny Dot in a Vast Universe
Lights Upon the Path: Great Faith, Great Courage, Great Questioning
A Verb for Nirvana
Understanding the Meditative Process
Buddha in the Forest (Samyutta Nikaya 7:18)
Interconnected…Or Not?
The Buddha’s Last Word: Care
Understanding the Hindrances
Caregiving and the Buddha’s Way
An Organic Spirituality
It’s About How to Live
The Buddha Did Not Teach Buddhism
The Emptiness of Concepts
A Face So Calm
Advice to a Dying Man
September 2015
Cultivating the Brahmavihāras
Fully Quenched
Grounded by the Earth
Working with Anger
The Three Institutional Poisons: Challenging Collective Greed, Ill Will, & Delusion
There’s More to Giving Than We Think
Seeking the Seeker
The Case Against Racism
Beyond Joy and Sorrow
Meditation on the Elements (Majjhima Nikaya 62)
Making the Best of It
Sharpening Mañjuśrī’s Sword
Only the Mountain Remains: Practicing in Nature
Food for Awakening: The Role of Appropriate Action
Mindfulness for Educators
No Harmful Thought
Mindfulness Defined: Street Smarts for the Path
Resourcefulness: a Jataka Story
Escaping the Karma of Addiction
How to Be a Bodhisattva
Attached to Nothing
Where the Action Is
Mind and Brain
Freedom from Buddha Nature
Mind Changing Brain Changing Mind: The Dharma and Neuroscience
How Does Meditation Train Attention?
Buddhism, Body, Mind-Problem?
Mindfulness of Breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118)
The Greatest Happiness
Māra Rebuffed
The Crow-Birth: A Jātaka Story
The Pilgrims’ Experience
The Sixth Sense
Kama Sutta
Cherish the Nuns
Perennial Issues
The BCBS Model Goes to India
August 2015
The Last Stronghold of Self
The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation
Bozobots
Words Well Said
Truth
Getting the Message
The Four Assemblies and Theravāda Buddhism
Back to the Source
July 2015
Deep Listening: An Interview with Gregory Kramer
Teaching Buddhism in America
What the Buddha Taught
Dharma Contemplation: Soaking Ourselves in the Words of the Buddha
A Comprehensive Matrix of Constructed Experience
Keeping the Wheel Rolling
Making a Joyful Effort
The Net of Brahmā: 62 Flavors of Wrong View (Dīgha Nikāya 1)
A Mother’s Blessing
Lions in the Wilderness
Going for Refuge
The Unifying Quality of Dharma
The Lonely Forest Dweller
A Discussion Among Psychologists
A Radiance of Nuns
Beaten Like A Thief
The Nature of Compassion
The Rock Inscriptions of King Ashoka
Theravada in the West
The Parable of the Six Creatures
The Five Spiritual Powers
The Truth of Interpersonal Suffering
What Can I Learn From This?
The Soothing of Grief
Freeing the Mind
A Builder of Bridges
Evolving Beyond Delusion
Dedicated to Dhamma
Life is a Retreat
June 2015
After Buddhism
Insecurity, Self-Criticism, and Impermanence
The Call of the Peacocks
The Not-Self Strategy
An Unabashed Enthusiasm for the Here and Now
Exploring New Approaches: The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
A Wish of Lovingkindness
A Question of Skill
The Context of Impermanence
Anatta: A Practical Approach
Do We Really Believe in Impermanence?
Seeing the Truth of Freedom
Dependent Origination
Practicing for Awakening Part 2
The Wisdom of the Ordinary Mind
Simply Rest in Knowing
Outline of Abhidhamma
Breaking Free with Creative Awareness
Dhamma as Skillful Kamma
Post Copernicus
Free of Fear
Killing Me Softly with Dharma
Shin Buddhism
The Good Sal Tree: Bhadda-Sala Jataka, No. 465
Working with Perception
A Simple Turning in Place: Forty Years in the Dharma
Here and Now
Mindfulness for Children
Freedom Through Not Knowing
Emptiness and Freedom
Bursting the Bubbles
The Radical Buddha
Very Good Dharma Friends
Practicing for Awakening
Love and Compassion in the Visuddhimagga
Sharing a Vision of Practice
The Pāramis: Heart of Buddha’s Teachings and Our Own Practice
The Path of Concentration and Mindfulness
May 2015
Cultivating Bodhicitta
April 2015
Going Forth
March 2015
The Buddha Doesn’t Do “Cozy”
February 2015
A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Buddhism
January 2015
Mapping the Mind
December 2014
Wise Attention
November 2014
Secular mindfulness: potential & pitfalls
October 2014
Some (mostly secular) thoughts about Emptiness
August 2014
The Evolving Sangha
Neuro-Bhavana: A Video Series with Rick Hanson
July 2014
Awareness of Thinking: Recollective Awareness Practice
June 2014
Jhāna Practice and True Happiness
May 2014
Natural Buddhism
April 2014
How is the Medium Changing the Message?
March 2014
Buddhist Roots & Ethics
February 2014
Silent Illumination
January 2014
Talking with Andrew Olendzki About His New Roles
December 2013
Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, & Compassionate Action
November 2013
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
October 2013
MIT Meets the Monastery
September 2013
Secular Buddhism: New vision or yet another of the myths it claims to cure?
August 2013
The Essence of Dhamma
July 2013
“Seeing” the Āsavas
June 2013
Meeting Your Thoughts At a Resting Place
May 2013
New rivers, new rafts: The Secular Buddhism Conference
April 2013
Wheels of Fire: The Buddha’s Radical Teaching on Process
March 2013
True & False: Dharma After the Western Enlightenment
February 2013
Honoring a Life & Legacy in the Dhamma: Mirka Knaster on Munindra
January 2013
A Classical Future: Interview with Insight Journal Editor
December 2012
Unburdened With Duties & Frugal In Our Ways
November 2012
The Busier You Are, The Slower You Should Go
October 2012
The Arrows of Thinking
September 2012
A Conversation with Bhikkhu Anālayo
July 2012
The Language We Use to Talk about Meditative Experiences
June 2012
Mindfulness & the Cognitive Process
May 2012
Getting Out of the Romantic Gate
April 2012
Dhammapada 13
March 2012
Teaching Mindfulness to Children
February 2012
Mindfulness in Buddhism & Psychology
January 2012
Going Forth: A Buddhist Approach to Retirement & Old Age
December 2011
What’s Left of the True Teaching
November 2011
What Feels Right about Right Action?
October 2011
Deep Dukkha
September 2011
Study & Practice with Nāgārjuna’s Dharma
August 2011
We Are Constructed Through Metaphor
July 2011
Seeing the Wheel, Stopping the Spin
June 2011
No Hatred for Anyone
May 2011
Sāriputta Teaches Dhamma
Did the Buddha Teach Satipatthāna?
A Protestant Buddhism?
April 2011
The Moon Among Stars
March 2011
Even Once!
February 2011
The Removal of Grudges
January 2011
Do It!
December 2010
Itivuttaka 3:7
November 2010
Metta in Anguttara Nikaya
October 2010
Metta in Other Suttas
September 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 10
August 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 9
July 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 8
June 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 7
May 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 6
April 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 5
March 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 4
February 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 3
January 2010
Metta Sutta Verse 2
December 2009
Metta Sutta Verse 1
December 1994
Shining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part II)
May 1994
Insight is Liberating Only If It is Lived
Shining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part I)
