Most Intimate: A Zen Approach to Life’s Challenges by Roshi Pat Enkyo Shambala Publications, 2014, 140 pages Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara earned a devoted following from the PBA community from annual weekend retreats that she led for our sangha during the 1990’s and 2000’s. For many of us, she was… Click to read more…
Robin continues his exploration of love as presented in the Buddha’s teachings. Part 1 concluded with the discovery of M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled. In Part 2, Robin continues his discussion of the impact this work had on him and how this furthered his understanding of Buddha’s teaching… Click to read more…
There are many notions about love in our popular culture that are nothing like those taught by the Buddha. I should start by acknowledging this talk is not a scholarly examination of Buddha’s teachings on love, and is far from complete or comprehensive. It is more of a personal, selective… Click to read more…
In the conclusion of his five part series, Bill Cunningham explores the meaning of Buddhism to 21st Century practicioners. Note: This is the final part of a five part series based on an address to the Philadelphia Buddhist Association, Sunday, September 9, 2012. Earlier parts of this essay identified what… Click to read more…
In part four of his five part series, Bill Cunningham explores the meaning of Buddhism to 21st Century practicioners. The heart of Buddhism is the joyous and hopeful message that we can live happily and wholesomely here and now. It is the description of how to practice and develop that… Click to read more…
In part three of his five part series, Bill Cunningham explores the meaning of Buddhism to 21st Century practitioners. In Part Two we saw that, according to Buddhism, our basic problem is that we want to be happy without suffering, but life isn’t that way. Let me clarify why this is so. Obviously, we… Click to read more…
In part two of his five part series, Bill Cunningham explores the meaning of Buddhism to 21st Century practitioners. All religions describe a universal human problem and prescribe a solution to it. Here’s how Buddhists see it. We all have ups and downs. Sometimes things go as we wish and… Click to read more…
In this serialized essay, I attempt to present, as Bhante Henepola Gunaratana might have called it, Buddhism in Plain English. So, it explains core, shared Buddhist teachings and practices, without usual special vocabulary. Part One compares Buddhism to a few other religions. Buddhism is a religion, like Quakerism, Catholicism,… Click to read more…