Reading time: 4 minutes You don’t have to be a farmer to know that if you plant a tomato seed, you’re not going to get a potato. The seeds you plant, given the right conditions, will lead to the crop …

Reading time: 5 minutes When you move to a new city, it helps to buy a map. It wouldn’t make much sense to ramble around the city, scratching out notes as we go. Many people have traveled those roads before …

Reading time: 4 minutes Come here for a moment, let me tell you a secret. The knowledge I’m about to share has been passed down from one generation of Buddhist masters to the next in an unbroken chain dating back …

Reading time: 6 minutes One day, the Buddha and his followers were hot and thirsty after a long day of travel. They went to fill a jug to drink, but some oxcarts had crossed recently and muddied the water. The …

Reading time: 5 minutes He lived on the streets of New York City during the hard years of the 1980s — alone and scared, but somehow undeterred. By most estimates, he would have very little hope for a life of …

Reading time: 5 minutes We all have to pay the bills. The way we pay the bills influences not just our checking accounts but also our wellbeing. It also affects the impacts we make on the world. Here we enter …

Reading time: 5 minutes Few parts of the Buddhist path are as visible as “right action.” Every day we’re outside in our cars, jobs, shopping centers, interacting with people and the world around us (depending these days on Covid restrictions). …

Reading time: 5 minutes I can still hear his voice. “You’re a loser,” he said with a sneer after I missed a shot at the basketball goal. “You really stink at this.” I was around nine or ten years old, …