by Anam Cara Callahan
This piece is an essay on my practice of mindfulness in choosing heart-filled work and the awakening of my inner artist and spiritual master.
by Caitlin Bargenquast
The lyric essay of a meditating artist musing on hustle, synchronization, practice, abundance, and working for tips.
by Liza Kindred
Why corporations can be a good thing, and how values can be good business.
by Scott Coulter
Navigating an ocean of attachment and aversion in the music business.
by Rik Polfliet
It’s a personal aspiration prayer that I wrote in a flash of devout inspiration. I thought I’d share it here and I hope it can be of benefit.
”Just as on a dark night black with clouds,
The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown,
Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas’ power,
Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and transient, in the world.”
Shantideva -Bodhicharyavatara (Padmakara translation)
by Jogen Salzberg
A prose piece about practice on a Pacific Coast road trip.
by Don Dianda
Using Zen to blow down inner walls and deal with the passing of those we love.
by Rik Polfliet
It is a short contemplation about the fact that I sometimes chase some exotic looking butterfly and stop practicing Dharma for a while. I hope it can be of some benefit.
by Marnix van Rossum
My main point in text is about doing what is available and how to find release from negativity.
by Rafael Ruiz
A short story addressing a modern encounter with the Historical Buddha
by ishita Gupta
How to make life’s moments survivable by coming back to the present moment and choosing to start over.
by Caitlin Strom
Why I love meditation and art in equal measures. Discussed: Rothko, shutter speeds, the speed of mind, splashing, smiling, the ocean in winter, brushstrokes, freezing time, egolessness, impermanence, and awakened heart.
by Lisa Wilson
Profound loss can create a sudden, uninvited wake-up call. When I received mine, I was gifted with new perspectives on life and on death. Art was a critical tool in helping maintain an awareness through the fire of pain, an awareness that has led to a much deeper peace on and off the meditation cushion.
And because of all of that, this is.
by Larissa Ziesmann
An honest account of how following Tibetan Buddhist principles has helped me stay grounded,present and aware at the most crucial time in my life…trying to recover from a 15 year spread of heroin use…and all the experiences that were a result of that life. An account of awakening to my purpose and being honest, for the first time ever, with who i really am, where I really want to go, and what I can give in this lifetime.
by Emeric Thuret
Using the technic of first thought-best thought introduced by Thrungpa Rinpoche, received by Yumma Mudra, and applied in every day dance of life, I share reflection of present moment experience and space around that experience.
First, there is a white page…
by Jon Owen
This was written as a companion piece to ”Polishing a Crystal: Reflections on Living in Precepts.”
What can I say is more joyful than creating the virtue of non-harm? Even the great boom of the syllable OM can’t show the true goodness of this most important practice.
by Dakota Sexton
”Buddhism B-Sides” is a coming-of-age essay about music and family. It begins with the ill-fated piano lessons I was first given by my mother during childhood, and continues as an investigation of my sometimes mindful and mindless relationship to music for years afterwards, spanning over a decade and a half. Yet the ”coming-of-age” heart of the story isn’t limited to any of these things. It instead becomes my spiritual awakening to how Buddhist understanding and compassion can be discovered by practicing or experiencing any art, any tune–whether that tune is played with poor execution or with grace.
by Max Greiner
Dakini Radio is a sci-fi take on tantra in the form (so far) of an ongoing online graphic novel. The novel explores the life and impact of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s life and teachings on young Western practitioners and the modern (and future) world, and explores the Dakini principle in a range of manifestations –from the experiential to the literal. My goal with it is to visually, textually, and symbolically explore the depth and breadth of my connection to Trungpa’s Dharma, as well as share my experience as a young Dharma practitioner with the world.
by Chessey BIrd Henry
This is a reflective prose poem, written on the fly, describing recent shifts in what I expect of my spiritual practice.
by Morrow Dowdle
My essay parallels the development of my Zen Buddhist practice with my medical career, relating how both have been essential to my personal healing process.
