Polygamy, Polyamory, and the Buddhadharma: what’s actually being asked?
I’ve noticed that when we ask whether Buddhism “requires” monogamy, we’re rarely asking a purely ethical question. We’re asking a belonging question. Am I still…
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Questioning Buddhist Cosmology
Buddhist cosmology can feel like an awkward inheritance. Many of us come to practice through the door of mindfulness, ethics, and meditation, and then—somewhere along…
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Grief as Practice
When death first moved from an idea to a fact in my life, I learned something I didn’t expect: grief doesn’t arrive as a single…
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Depression and Dharma
Depression is one of those experiences that can make even simple things feel impossibly heavy. From a Buddhist perspective, that heaviness isn’t a personal failure…
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Consistency
Consistency is the quiet power behind zazen. Not because Zen is a self-improvement program, and not because sitting every day earns you points with the…
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The Paramitas
In Zen, the paramitas (often translated “perfections,” but more helpfully “ways of crossing over”) are not a ladder you climb to become holy. They’re the…
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I’m a Buddhist—and I’m still Jewish
I am Jewish. Not as a costume, not as a mood, not as a vague ancestry note on a family tree. I’m Jewish in the…
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Emptiness in Zen
Zen talks about emptiness the way a seasoned sailor talks about wind. It isn’t an abstract theory, and it isn’t a poetic garnish on top…
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The Eightfold Path: A Gentle Way of Living That Leads Beyond Suffering
The Four Noble Truths point with gentle clarity to what hurts, why it hurts, what relief feels like, and the way of living that supports…
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The Four Noble Truths – A Brief Introduction
In the Buddha’s first great teaching, the Four Noble Truths were offered not as a creed to believe in, but as something closer to a…
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