Hope and Care Bears
I find it hard, if not impossible, to wave one hand limply at another cut in public health spending and mumble platitudes about karma.
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Author: The Tattooed Buddha
Hope is Hopeless
Can we genuinely live a life of not hoping for something?
Read MoreTalking with Lee Carlson, Author of A Single Excellent Night: A Man, a Mentor & a Moment in Time
A Single Excellent Night weaves together awakening experiences and pivotal realizations from the first four years of a 15-year apprenticeship Lee Carlson spent with Peter Matthiessen.
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In the Forge: Where Buddhism Fails (and Sometimes Works)
In my darker moments, I sometimes wonder if Buddhism in the West has become a plaything for middle class dilettantes, a sizeable number of whom seem to prefer to turn their back on current realities—because they can.
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The Dharma Follows You Everywhere
I learned that stillness is not about comfort. It’s about honesty. And in that honesty, for the first time, I began to see that what I’d really been running from all along wasn’t the law—it was myself.
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