DharmaCrafts' Teachings
DharmaCrafts' Calming Meditation Script - "Blis...
Meditation scripts are a great gateway into meditation for beginners, and can elevate the practice of even the most experienced meditators. A meditation script is a written or recorded set...
DharmaCrafts' Calming Meditation Script - "Blis...
Meditation scripts are a great gateway into meditation for beginners, and can elevate the practice of even the most experienced meditators. A meditation script is a written or recorded set...
Invoking the Power of Compassion
One of the basic liturgical texts in the Zen world is a chapter from the Lotus Sutra titled “Universal Gateway,” or more precisely, “The Universal Gate of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.” In...
Invoking the Power of Compassion
One of the basic liturgical texts in the Zen world is a chapter from the Lotus Sutra titled “Universal Gateway,” or more precisely, “The Universal Gate of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.” In...
Breathing Out, I Smile
The Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh died last month, at the age of 95. It’s impossible to overstate his importance in the Buddhist world—he popularized mindfulness practice and normalized engaged...
Breathing Out, I Smile
The Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh died last month, at the age of 95. It’s impossible to overstate his importance in the Buddhist world—he popularized mindfulness practice and normalized engaged...
Jayavarman II, King of the Khmer Empire
Jayavarman II was a king of ancient Cambodia from 802 AD to 835 AD. The Khmer Empire, the dominant civilization on the Southeast Asian mainland from the 9th century until...
Jayavarman II, King of the Khmer Empire
Jayavarman II was a king of ancient Cambodia from 802 AD to 835 AD. The Khmer Empire, the dominant civilization on the Southeast Asian mainland from the 9th century until...
Stay Right Where You Are
Some Buddhist texts—especially later ones, in the Mahayana tradition—are full of stories of supernatural feats. There’s astral projection, teleportation—at one point in the Lotus Sutra, there’s even a scene in...
Stay Right Where You Are
Some Buddhist texts—especially later ones, in the Mahayana tradition—are full of stories of supernatural feats. There’s astral projection, teleportation—at one point in the Lotus Sutra, there’s even a scene in...
Just Do This One Thing
Scholars sometimes classify Zen as a “single-practice” school of Buddhism. Single-practice schools are primarily a Japanese phenomenon—Pure Land schools center around saying and recalling Namu Amida Butsu, an invocation of...
Just Do This One Thing
Scholars sometimes classify Zen as a “single-practice” school of Buddhism. Single-practice schools are primarily a Japanese phenomenon—Pure Land schools center around saying and recalling Namu Amida Butsu, an invocation of...