Join us as we cross the Himalayas through Nepal and Tibet to Mount Kailash, source of some of Asia’s mightiest rivers and spiritual center of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Lord Buddha himself exhorted his students not to get attached to his teachings: "If I give you this teaching, promise me that you won't get attached to it." 

It's important that someone loves you, but it is even more important that someone has anger towards you. You see, if someone loves you it does not help you benefit numberless sentient beings or actualize the entire path to enlightenment. So why is this person the most precious thing to me. Because they are angry with you. To you, this person's anger is like a wish-granting jewel.

One of the most important questions we come to in spiritual practice is how to reconcile service and responsible action with a meditative life based on nonattachment, letting go, and coming to understand the ultimate emptiness of all conditioned things. Do the values that lead us to actively give, serve, and care for one another differ from the values that lead us deep within ourselves on a journey of liberation and awakening? To consider this question, we must first learn to distinguish among four qualities central to spiritual practice--love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity--and what might be called their "near enemies." Near enemies may seem to be very close to these qualities and may even be mistaken for them, but they are not fundamentally alike.

A Path To Wholeness A Buddhist psychiatrist who has been meditating for decades elegantly describes how psychotherapy and meditation can help us manage our most powerful emotions--and make us feel more alive and whole in the process.

Lincoln, MA (USA) -- Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School students and residents of Lincoln and Sudbury gathered recently to learn lessons in kindness and suffering from Buddhist monk and teacher Geshe Pema Dorjee.

The vows of marriage are not only part of an external ceremony. More importantly, they represent an internal, mental commitment. To understand how to uphold that commitment throughout your life, you need to understand the larger framework of these vows.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

THAILAND -- For the past five years, the Venerable Phra Prachak, abbott of Hua Nuru Phut Buddhist monastery in Eastern Thailand, has been saving trees by "ordaining" them --wrapping tree trunks with strips of saffron doth the golden color of a monk's robes. In this traditionally Buddhist country, even destitute, desperate loggers are reluctant to sink their saws into these "sanctified" trees.