Looking Back Every new year, I feel like โGosh, what happened to the last 12 months? What did I do”? I think about what I did last year and then about what I will do for the next 12 months. Sometimes, it is a little uneasy because you are interrogating yourself. My mind has to…
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Joseph Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D. is a contemplative psychotherapist, clinical researcher, and business consultant who integrates ancient contemplative science and technology with contemporary breakthroughs in neuroscience and optimal health. He founded Nalanda Center for Contemplative Science and is on faculty at the Weill Cornell Center for Integrative Medicine and the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies. He…
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Saraha, “the Archer,” is arguably the most important of the mahฤsiddhas, the charismatic and sometimes outrageous Indian Buddhist tantric adepts of the 8th to 11th centuries CE. His poetic works โ and especially his Treasury of Dohฤs or People Dohฤs โ were analyzed and quoted both by his Indian successors and by scholars and contemplatives in all the great…
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Roger Jackson is professor emeritus of Asian studies and religion at Carleton College and a visiting professor of Buddhism at Maitripa College. His research and writing interests include Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and ritual; Buddhist religious poetry; and modern Buddhist thought. Among the topics on which he has published are the Kฤlacakra Tantra, Dharmakฤซrtiโs…
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The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination provide an insight into the chain of unsatisfactory existence. There is no realm of life in which these realities do not exist. Perhaps the most profound part of the Buddha’s teaching is the description of how this wheel of uncontrolled life, death and rebirth continues to keep rolling. By…
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