There is joy in emptiness. Not in an empty feeling, but in casting aside the attachment to everyday things and worries, as outlined in the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. That was among the many ...

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Observing that "Buddhist meditation has been seen as at best a harmless mystical preoccupation, at worst a socially irresponsible self-indulgence," Conradi (Iris Murdoch) offers an idiosyncratic and ...

A key term in Buddhism is emptiness, and that might sound like a terrible thing. Ordinarily, we associate emptiness with depression and despair. A good life is a full life, we believe. An empty life ...

The Buddhist influence on art of the past 50 years is, like much else in the Buddhist worldview, immeasurable. “Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art,” at the Rubin Museum of Art, ...

KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of Kannon, ...

“War is a racket, it always has been.”– Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps major general These two quotes summarize how I feel about war. I grew up in the Vietnam era. The graphic TV news ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — The Young Buddhist Initiative describes itself as bringing Buddhist traditions into the modern world in a way that it hopes will suit contemporary — particularly younger — lives. NEW ...

In this enlightening corrective to male-dominated histories of Buddhism, Anālayo (Mindfulness of Breathing), a member of the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, explores the lives and teachings of ...