
Going for Refuge in Times of Crisis
A healthcare chaplain explains how the Buddhist practice of taking refuge supports her in times of crisis and offers a contemplation practice to try.

A healthcare chaplain explains how the Buddhist practice of taking refuge supports her in times of crisis and offers a contemplation practice to try.
A contemplation on clouds, impermanence, and keeping an open mind, along with some exercises to try.

The author contemplates what it is like to uncover the beliefs that form a false sense of security, and shares how, as a seasoned Buddhist practitioner, she develops greater openness to what is true.

A medical emergency gives the author a chance to apply a teaching by the Buddhist master Shantideva.

A Buddhist teaching in a 70s TV show? Looking back over half a lifetime through the lens of the Four Reminders.

A contemplation on the power of art and creativity, and even language itself, to express and signify what is essential and unnameable.
