The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. A special transmission outside the ...

YOU may have encountered moments of 'Zen' in your life – like a particularly peaceful walk in nature, or while lying down, eyes closed, at the end of a yoga session – and we all know that in today's ...

Old age, sickness and death. What most of us see as a depressing trio of life situations, the Buffalo Zen Dharma Community would like people to look at with peace and ease. Next week the group will ...

Su Bong Zen Monastery, in the heart of Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island, has noticed a rise in visitor numbers since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Zen is more important than ever as our world ...

Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi, a leading figure in Zen Buddhism in America whose legacy was later complicated by allegations of sexual abuse, has died. He was 107. Roshi died Sunday afternoon at ...

Once you get through the jagged opening in the chain-link fence and past the empty whiskey bottles lying in the tall grass, it's easy to imagine why a contemplative spiritual community was attracted ...

The trouble was that, in being able to deal in such complexity, Buddhism acquired that aloof superior air — here was a ...

One of Bernie Glassman’s favorite koans asks: Where do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole? His answer seemed to be: You plunge. Glassman, who died November 4 at age 79, was a Brooklyn-born Jew, ...

Quieting the chatter can be difficult when the cell phone rings all day. No longer do the rules of polite protocol of no calls after 9pm exist. It is constant. To the point where people will call ...