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DEAR ZEN: How do I navigate family members' squabbles?
Life advice from a Zen perspective
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Be a Ball on a Fast-Moving Stream
"If there is a meaning in life at all," psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl writes, "then there must be a meaning in suffering." As…
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In Human Existence, Suffering is a Feature, Not a Bug
But take what follows—and any attempt to explain or teach Buddhism through words, for that matter—with a grain of salt.
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On Being a Zen Jerk
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DEAR ZEN: Some Basic Zen Life Advice
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In Human Existence, Suffering is a Feature, Not a Bug
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DEAR ZEN: Hakuin's Baby
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Issue No. 1 of COURAGE & STRATEGY
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COURAGE & STRATEGY #3
An Interview with The Young Buddhist Editorial
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Introducing my interview with the Young Buddhist Editorial
And an update on how to support Maui's recovery
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Safe from the fires & Some ways you can help
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Revisiting my 2021 post,"Why Japanese Tea Ceremony is Badass"
On my adventures training in Chado, The Way of Tea
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DEAR ZEN: Some Basic Zen Life Advice
Two graduate students seek advice on making big career decisions and managing catastrophic anxiety
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Three Years On The Great Mountain
Some News & A Reflection on Zen Women
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DEAR ZEN: Hakuin's Baby
A single dad asks, "How would someone with extremely limited resources further their practice?"
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